When you think of camping you think of sitting outside next to a rolling stream looking at the wilderness around you enjoying things and taking it all in. The truth is when you’re on a trek like this it takes a lot of work to do anything and everything throughout your day. Even the smallest things like getting undressed and dressed inside your one man or two man tent takes a lot of energy at 9000 feet. Making dinner every night requires hauling a bucket of 5 L worth of water back to camp and boiling it to make sure that it’s purified before we eat dinner. Of course, then you must sanitize all the dishes with the boiling water and then cook your food and then clean all your dishes after everyone’s finished. Then you must properly prepare any leftovers to be hiked out as trash. You then must finish hanging all your bear bags appropriately. You can then finally wiggle your way into your tent and make it into your hopefully sweat free nightclothes to lay down for a while so that you can do it all over again the next day. Overall, this has been a great learning experience for all of us and even though it’s been tough we are absolutely loving every minute of being together out here in this beautiful country.