Backpacking Trips

When I was younger, my dad and I used to go on a backpacking trip each year. It was some of my greatest memories as a child; sleeping under the stars, hiking, fishing, and swimming. One of my favorite times was when we found a small lake that could only be found on a map from 1994. Getting to the lake was an adventure in itself because we had to cross rivers and use a compass to find it. Once we got to the lake we began fishing for the huge trout we saw in the lake. the fish however, would not bite our hooks. After hours of watching fish swim past our hooks we decided to make a trap in the lake that the fish would swim into. Once the fish swam into the small cove we created, we closed it off and dove into the water and caught the fish with our sleeping bag cases.