Hike to Jenny Lake

 I was asked to be one of the leaders to accompany the stake young women on their backpacking trip for girls camp.  I wanted to have an idea of where I was taking the girls so we went on a family hike to Jenny Lake.  It was 9 miles round trip.  We went up and back in one day.  It was our second big hike of the summer and the kids were amazing.  We spent some time at the lake fishing.  Only one fish was caught and Miss Katelyn was the fisherman.  This was also the first trip Ridge wore a backpack and carried his own water.  He was pretty proud of himself.  On the way back down I was holding the fishing poles. We sat down to take a rest and Russ took them from me and layed them against a tree.  We forgot them and walked away.  We remembered when we were about a mile to the car.  Russ booked it back up the trail and got almost all of the way back to the lake looking for them.  He remembered on the way back down where he had put them.  He got back all sweaty and tired but feeling pretty good about himself.  In his words, "I still have it!"  We were tired (especially Russ) but always happy to have had an adventure.