Parents Weekend

6/28/24

Oliver-

Whenever I don’t feel inspired to write I read the blog my parents made about cooking their way through the woods to a food cooking book. Today I did this and realized how far I have to go before I can write like them, still giving up probably won’t help much. Anyway, the connection here is that they came and visited this past weekend which was very nice. They even got Henry to come with them, which is difficult to do because he is so committed to his work. They picked me up right after work and we drove down to the Tetons where we camped at Colter Bay. My mom made pasta and a salad which was very good and very difficult to clean off the dishes. The next day we hiked up Granite Canyon with the ambition to backpack at Marion Lake. The hike was pretty but not easy and by the time we made it to the lake, we had gone a couple miles more than we thought it was and it was about dinner time. Unfortunately for my appetite, the lake turned out to be a less-than-ideal campsite, much of the area was covered and snow, and where the snow had melted it was muddy. This combined with it being very cold sent us back down the mountain where we planned on camping at a site we had passed earlier in the day. Despite how tired and hungry we all were the hike back down was easier than the hike up and we were able to beat the setting sun, phew. The next day I hiked all the way back to the trailhead, met Opal, and hiked significantly less far back up the trail where we set up camp for the second night. While we waited for my family to get to the campsite I ‘swam’ in the very cold river. Eventually, they arrived and we had a much more relaxing evening than the night before. On the way out the next day, we all got brunch (ice cream) in Jackson Hole before saying our goodbyes. It was a lovely weekend and I appreciate them making the long drive.