I have been in the mountains for a few days, with the boys.
Early in August is the best time to go. Late in the summer the water in the lakes is often warm enough to go swimming. We can eat blueberries and cloudberries and black crowberries by the trail when we go hiking. The trout fishing in the rivers is very good.
Our mountain cabin is very simple; no electricity, no cell-phone, no tap water (we carry drinking water in buckets from the river), and no internet of course. I had no chance to post the stuff I wrote, on a sheet of paper, under a candle light at night. I'll type it in, and post it together with some nice pics from our fishing trips in the next few days >:)
I love your family. Perhaps we could arrange some marriages? :)
ReplyDeleteGood idea, Anita. I've got two boys, 9 and 16 yo >:)
ReplyDeleteHow about you?
That's a interesting picture. I like the bridge.
ReplyDeleteYour cabin sounds like the perfect getaway. It's hard to remember a time without Internet and phones.
Helen
Sounds like my favourite place on earth - Injisuthi (meaning Place of the Well-fed Dogs) in the Drakensberg! Looking forward to the photos.
ReplyDeleteJudy
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Pretty! Jotunheimen?
ReplyDeleteI just had some time off in the mountains as well. So refreshing!
An awesome way to reconnect with nature and each other! It sounds like you had a great time.
ReplyDeleteCruella: It's not Jotunheimen, just a little bit further north.
ReplyDeleteLaura: It's always good to spend some days away from urban life. It shows that it's actually possible to have fun without TV and Internet >:)
That sounds wonderful. Refreshing. We're melting here so that photo is a welcome treat.
ReplyDeleteI love that you go back to the same place every year. Your boys will have such great memories of going to the mountains every summer.
ReplyDeleteWe do the same thing and visit the Russian River every year with some good friends, but I do wish for a cell, computer & electricity break!
I've been hiking and fishing in this mountain area since I was a kid; coming back every year >:)
ReplyDeleteHelen, did you notice the big flat rock under the bridge? I've heard from old people that the rock was brought down there by a big flood in spring 1937. Before the bridge was built, the rock served as a natural bridge where brave people crossed the river >:)
ReplyDeleteJudy, I have always wanted to visit Southern Africa. Hope I'll get the chance to do it some time. Maybe I should try to sigh up for a geology field trip to the Karoo Basin.
Lisa, if you swam in that river, I can promise you would get cooled >:)
Laura, sometimes its good to be away from cell phones and internet for a while. One of my physics professors in the university used to say: "With computers, a lot of time is lost". That's very true I think.