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I didn't think I could sleep on hard ground. It quit raining and we decided to high-tail it back to the car, her yelling at me at least some of the way down. Sophia wasn't too happy. It was getting on to eight o'clock when we got back and it was starting to get dark. She had a big tent in the car, as big as a circus tent and one could play basketball in it. We had to put it up, and by the time we got it all laid out it was dark. Again I hadn't a clue what she was doing. We had to erect it by flash-light. She screamed at me the whole time and called me names. Must have been very entertaining for the nearby campers. It was quite a deal once up, you could walk around in it. It was ancient, all canvas and weighed a ton.
So we stayed in the big tent for maybe four days and took day trips. It was a beautiful place; swam in the creeks and had a wonderful time. We hiked up to Little Elk Lake the next day. It was a climb in two stages. The first was what we had done the night before, and had almost made it to
where it was a level walk for at least mile through a beautiful, narrow and gorgeous valley, wet and mucky with idyllic grass meadows, 'color-splashed everywhere with mountain flowers', broad green leafy fern like stuff, running water from the snow melt fed creeks, reddish orange rotten logs, mossy rock everywhere, steep cliffs and elevating mountain, with all the smells of spring, since snow-melt came late in the mountains. I didn't think I could sleep on hard ground. It quit raining and we decided to high-tail it back to the car, her yelling at me at least some of the way down. Sophia wasn't too happy. It was getting on to eight o'clock when we got back and it was starting to get dark. She had a big tent in the car, as big as a circus tent and one could play basketball in it. We had to put it up, and by the time we got it all laid out it was dark. Again I hadn't a clue what she was doing. We had to erect it by flash-light. She screamed at me the whole time and called me names. Must have been very entertaining for the nearby campers. It was quite a deal once up, you could walk around in it. It was ancient, all canvas and weighed a ton.
So we stayed in the big tent for maybe four days and took day trips. It was a beautiful place; swam in the creeks and had a wonderful time. We hiked up to Little Elk Lake the next day. It was a climb in two stages. The first was what we had done the night before, and had almost made it to
where it was a level walk for at least mile through a beautiful, narrow and gorgeous valley, wet and mucky with idyllic grass meadows, 'color-splashed everywhere with mountain flowers', broad green leafy fern like stuff, running water from the snow melt fed creeks, reddish orange rotten logs, mossy rock everywhere, steep cliffs and elevating mountain, with all the smells of spring, since snow-melt came late in the mountains.
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