used to be i would plan a camping trip and then call barb up and see if she wanted to come and it would be way too much trouble but sometimes she'd come and always if she came she'd have a good time.
so all of a sudden barb's all like "i'm going camping and i hope you can come"
so this ONE weekend she decides to go camping and i ask her what kind of camping she wants to do and she's like LET'S GO BACKPACKING. i know, right? car camping or canoe camping was on the slate and barb was all hot to go off for her first backpacking off trail up into the came;'s hump state forest and i had some research to do up there, so yay! there are a lot of areas in CHSP where you can't camp because they're too high up or too close to the long trail or whatever, but if you plan ahead and map your control points, you can do just fine.
two nights. we were out three days and two nights and our total distance traveled was under five miles. a lot of it was bushwhacking on hard terrain, but we also weren't in any special hurry.
anyway, on day three in the afternoon we arrived at THE CASCADES, a lovely waterfall and sometimes popular swimming hole. so while we had not sought to hike TO this waterfall, we did walk over the mountain and off trail for two days to get to it.
it happened to be a control point on our way out.
we sat on the ground and had a snack and changed socks and refilled our water and i have never been so happy to see any little waterfall in my life. because below the falls, there's a trail. and we picked up our packs and walked on down it to the parking.
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