I returned this afternoon from a 2 night backpacking trip with our NYI President, Shane and four of our youth. We began our four mile hike into Spider Meadows in a driving rain that began to let up as we hiked and finally ended after about 45 minutes. We arrived at the beautiful meadow and enjoyed the evening with a sad little fire and went to bed early.

The boys slept in till after 9:00 so it gave me an opportunity to explore a little. I headed for a rock cropping where we had seen Marmot the evening before. I was not disappointed as I found them quite easily. The first one I found was basking in the morning sun before he began grazing for the day.

As I was walking back to camp I ran into another marmot that was nibbling on the fresh new shoots that were emerging from the avalanche debris leftover from winter.



After breakfast we walked up to the end of the valley and spent the afternoon playing in the creek, eating lunch and talking. Several of the boys asked about the possibility of being baptized in the creek. We talked about what baptism was all about and what God was doing in their life and then headed off to find a suitably deep enough pool of water.






I can't feel my legs!!!



The baptism was certainly the highlight of our trip but I will post a few more pictures just for fun.