Mountain Family Rendezvous at Dan Creek

Last Friday we had an unusual adventure. We loaded up our snowmachines with camping gear and headed out on the trails to Dan Creek. It's about a 40 minute ride but with Naomi riding the little Bravo it took us about 2 hours! Needless to say the kids were pretty cold by the time we arrived.



We got our stuff into the wall tent that was still set up from the weekend earlier when the site hosted the yearly Mountain Man Rendezvous. We built a fire in the woodstove and got some dinner going. Naomi thought it was a great adventure and they kids played house while we set up!



There were a few other families there as well so after we were settled we headed out to the main campfire to enjoy some great conversation some hot coffee and roast some gigantic marshmallows.



Then we headed off to bed. It was -20 degrees Farenheit outside so the kids packed into their sleeping bags with their outside gear still on. Some of it was shed during the night and Jeremiah ended up sleeping in the sleeping bag with Mommy. The next morning we gave the kids a choice of whether to stay another night or if we should go home and it was unanimous to stay! Little troopers!





The next day was filled with different activities...riding snowmachines around, shooting at helium balloons, climbing steep hills and sliding down, a dog named Glacier. The older "boys" also enjoyed blowing up tree stumps and such.











Sunday morning we played a little and then packed up to head home. We just had all of our gear packed in and Ryan was going to move the snowmachines over to the path when Jeremiah decided he wanted to ride along and ran over to where Ryan was waiting on the snowmachine. He tripped and fell and hit his mouth on the metal footrail of the snowmachine and bit two teeth through the skin above his top lip. Boy did that bleed! We were pretty sure he'd need stitches but by the time we got home the swelling had gone down quite a bit and I think the swelling helped to push the skin together helping the incisions to stay shut pretty well.



In all it was a great adventure and we had a wonderful time out in the beautiful Alaskan back country with a bunch of great friends.