Backpacking ... before it was `invented'

A Boy and His Dad ... continued

My Dad took me backpacking when I was a kid. We went backpacking before backpacking was even `invented’ … just he and I. We went to places no one had ever been, or at least not for decades, or maybe centuries … perhaps visited last by Native Americans, or lost explorers. We backpacked into the `High Lakes’ … high mountain alpine lakes, azure colored, so…