“Through hail or high water …” And we crossed both. This picture sums up how I felt about being the minister at my friends’ wedding, and how I felt about their wedding: a five-day backpacking trip through Kings Canyon called the Rae Lakes Loop. The wedding was amazing, but I can’t tell you how to…
A few days before our backpacking wedding trip to Rae Lakes—which I still owe this blog pictures of—a LifeStraw water bottle arrived for me. Now, we’d already invested in the Sawyer filtration system, which for backcountry backpacking is an ideal weight and easy-ness. But I clipped my new LifeStraw on my backpack anyway, and boy…