Starting in 1967 we took our kids on 16 backpack trips, mostly in the North Boundary sector of Yosemite National Park.  We sometimes took their friends and ours. The trips ranged in length from five or six days to two weeks.  On short trips we covered 30 miles; on longer ones, 60. We preferred cross-country to trail hiking, and often went most of the trip without encountering anyone else at all.  Everybody came back, and almost everybody had a good time, although on a 2003 trip over sunuvabitch pass (AKA horse creek pass), Mark remarked that we should have been prosecuted for taking children there.  In total we suffered only two injuries serious enough to imperil the trip (both on the 1977 trip - see below).  There are slides from every trip.  All will eventually appear here.

New 12/28/2008