More Summer...Trek

Here we are(I'm behind the camera, as usual)starting out at Martin's Cove after an all-night, no-sleep bus ride to WY. We walked a total of almost 6 mi. the first morning. We were deeply moved by the spirit we felt in Martin's Cove, and at the monument to the young men who carried members of the Willie Co. over the Sweetwater River.

Sweetwater monument. Coral is holding our 'baby', Charlie.

Music for the journey.

Kevin carries Coral across the Sweetwater River-admittedly a different experience in the summer than in the winter, but moving nonetheless. We trekked 9 mi. this second day in an area called the Meadows, which includes the several crossings of this river.

A photo of our whole ward as we prepared to leave Rock Creek Hollow- the area where the Willie Co. camped after climbing Rocky Ridge with the rescue party from SLC. Thirteen members of the company are buried here.

Kevin and I were 'Ma & Pa' for a group of youth from our Ward on a Pioneer Trek reenactment in July. India, Niall, & Leith stayed home with Grandma Denna while we pulled handcarts, camped, and visited historic sites in WY. We were very spiritually moved by the whole experience. We felt blessed to have actually walked and thought and prayed in the very locations where the ill-fated Willie and Martin Handcart Companies sacrificed so much.