First family backpacking trip in Alaska! We spent the night with 3 other families on the Eagle River Nature Center trail.

Getting ready

Starting out

Before we put her in the kiddo-carrier backpack

Out of the pack to climb on rocks before we got to the campsite

Throwing rocks for sprig in Eagle River. Saw mountain goats and dall sheep on the upper slopes (on the mountains behind Erik not in this picture).

Playing in the campsite

S'mores

Ukelele

tent

Breakfast

Hill beside campsite

Attacking bryophytes and lichens

Break on the way out. Kiddos on a log

The big hollowed-out cottonwood

Back home, putting Pippi in the pack