Hiking!

Hi all,

Below is a slide show, or it might be above. Frankly I'm not entirely sure how this things works. It's taken me damn near 4 days to figure out how to even post a slide show, and it moves a bit faster than I want, but I don't know how to change it so deal with it. My friend Adam and I went hiking this past Saturday to a place called Rainbow Lakes. He had been up in the area a couple months ago and said it was a really neat area and so we decided to go and check out these lakes. We knew it was about 3 1/2 miles in, and he had said that there was an elevation gain of only about 1200ft over those 3 1/2 miles. Gentle slope, I thought to myself. So we parked and started hiking. It ends up that all of the elevation gain is in the first 3/4 mile, and it was super steep in parts. Maybe not quite 1200ft, but a considerable amount. Anyways, so you come to the top of this ridge and then drop down in to a basin and there's about 7 lakes total that you can hike to, all within about 3 miles from the top of the ridge. It was way cool and very pretty up where we were. We fished a lot on a couple of the lakes but didn't catch anything. When we got back to where we were parked there's a little lake and I wanted to try at least once more so I cast in and landed a decent sized rainbow trout. I got it in to shore, was crouched down and had just got the hook out when a voice behind me said, "You got something there?" It startled me and of course, I dropped the fish back in the water. I turn around and there's an older guy with his grandaughter standing there looking at me. I didn't say what I wanted to, but took my loss and skulked away. Just kidding. I told him I did have something but I lost it and then thanked him for distracting me, then I fished for another hour and didn't catch anything. It was still a lot of fun though. Colleen and Silas went and hung out with her brother and sister and other family, because I know you were all thinking, "Well what was Colleen doing while Matt was gone all day?" There's your answer. We just back from the park and took some photos so I'll post those in a couple days.