Back country mosquito killin'

     Thursday, after work we went on our back country camping by Shoshoni lake. Destination was 9 miles far from our dorm. First day we walked only six miles because we were going to stay our first night at camp site named 8G1. That camp site was covered with mosquitoes, and they were vicious, and they were in  big hordes. We did used our bug spray, which by the way, we almost forgot. It was working for a while but they were still around our heads. We ate some noodles prepared with our new Jet-boil, and we went to the bed.

     Next morning after delicious breakfast consisted with oatmeal and hot chocolate/coffee we hit the trail once again, but just for a two miles or so. We had to cross some stream which Em crossed on her feet and I double jumped across with a help of a stone. So Em had her shoes wet and I did not. Yet. Next stream we had to cross Em crossed it on fallen trees. I tried to do the same but I accidentally jumped to the mud deep to my ankles, luckily only one foot got the full hit. Now we both marked from our trip we went on. The map we got from rangers was little bit confusing so we ended up in a wrong camping site, which we did not know right away because it was place with beach and bear proof food lockers. We built our tent and stayed there for a while, we went to see a geyser basin which was pretty close to our fake campsite. We saw a geyser go off, what looked pretty nice.

After we got back and after observation of the surrounding with binoculars we decided to go back a little bit and tried to go another way what showed up as a best idea. Finally we found our right campsite which was way nicer and even had a benches and some sort of a toilet. After we built our tent and bear proofed our backpacks we went to the beach. It was a wonderful feeling to washed our faces and hair in cold water of Shoshoni Lake. Beautiful place to stay! Too bad the weather turned to the cloudy and windy-one. Well we had to move our tent to the more sheltered place so we did not have to hold its sides so it would not collapse. After evening full of rain and wind, night was not really different, accept the wind stopped, but the tent was and still is waterproof so we were dry and could sleep without any worrying. Awesome.

      Morning wasn't what we hoped for. It was cloudy. So we ate our breakfast, packed our wet stuff, got some water from lake by using our new awesome water filter which I did not see before in my whole life.,and went on our 9 miles long hike home. The only advantage of cloudy weather was that it  wasn't hot. Mosquitoes were our company the whole way home. So many mosquito bites. We left our campsite around 8.30 and we got back at like 1.30. Pretty good time I think. We put all our wet clothes to the washer, shoes and sleeping bags to the car and took a shower. My overall feelings after this back country camping were really good. Good way to spend some time away from all the craziness. 
Here some photo's.