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Took my three sons on their first real backpacking trip this weekend. We started from Juniper point and parked right at the trailhead. We got there about 7:15pm Friday. This was my first time on Cross timbers, and I'll tell you I was very impressed. A lot of climbs and drops. Not what I was expecting for North TX. We hiked to the first campsite on the trail, which took about 45 mins.
The boys all had small tents and I used my HH Explorer Deluxe. This was my first time trying out my JrB Nest UQ and I will never go back to fighting with a pad inside the hammock again. At first I didn't think I was going to get a chance to use it because I was so warm, but around 1:00 it finally dropped below 70 and started to feel cold. I was able to set the UQ up at 1am in about 5 mins and I was back in the hammock. I was worried that I might be too hot, but I wasn't at all and slept great the rest of the night.
Saturday morning we decided to leave our camp set-up and just bring water and lunch with us. We hiked to 5.5 mile camp and had some lunch. It was pretty warm and the trail was surprisingly challenging. After lunch we hiked back to camp and spent some time in the chilly Lake Texoma. Felt great after being hot and dusty.
Being Memorial Day weekend I expected to see a lot more people on the trail, but we only ran into about 3 small groups of backpackers, 2 trail runners, and we didn't see anyone braving the trail with a bike.
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