Photos of us at play

Yep--that's P taking a bath when his dad was a ranger at Donner Lake State Park...more than 60 years ago.

And here are before and after photos from P's first backpacking trip, in 1964. He and his sister and her friend hiked up to Paradise Valley for an overnight, and came back the next morning. What fun! Gotta love those outfits--and note the Sierra Club cups stylishly worn at the hip!

Hiking shoes? Converse All-Stars, long before they were a big deal.

P rolling up his bedding after a night in camp--back in the good old days about 1964

At Tuolumne Pass after our cross country hike from Nelson Lake--P in the Grand Tetons, after hiking 20 miles more than fifty years ago.

At Machu Picchu in Peru in the Andes. M in the Mayacamas Mountains in Napa. P at Smedberg Lake in Northern Yosemite...

M on the trail from Red Mountain Basin in the John Muir Wilderness, At 14,000 feet on the Inka Trail to Machu Picchu, And at almost 16,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes' Huascaran National Park

On the Kings River in John Muir Wilderness....with a few smaller friends, At Hetch-hetchy in Yosemite over Easter weekend, Death Valley over another Easter vacation

At Sachsayhuaman outside of Cusco, Peru, Memorial Day at Lake Eleanor in Yosemite, Atop Mitchell Peak in Kings Canyon National Park

M at dusk at Waugh Lake, M ready to hit the trail near Clark Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, P pretending to be Teddy Roosevelt in Yosemite

P at age 13 climbing in Banff. P enjoying the prickly nature of Mother Nature. And a more recent photo about Thousand lsland Lake

Leaving Emeric Lake in Yosemite National Park, At Nelson Lake, planning the cross-country route to Tuolumne Pass in Yosemite; M in Jack Main Canyon

And P in Virginia Canyon Enjoying a quiet lunch at Laguna Torre in Patagonia