Stanley Campout and Bike Adventure

To celebrate Pioneer day, we headed to the mountains. Missy and Jedd and their family and our neighbors and friends, Brent and Chad Carr also came along for the adventure. Tom and Taylor have gone mountain biking with Chad and Brent every summer for the past few years in the Stanley area so we combined their biking adventure with our family camping trip. We arrived up at the Marsh Creek Campground on Thursday evening and got our campsite all set up. The Carr's came and set their camp up and we waited and waited and waited and were just about ready to go to bed when the Smith's finally showed up at around 11 pm. They had ended up getting lost so we were thankful that they finally found us. Friday morning "Mountain man" Tom made some of his world famous "mountain man" breakfast.
It is Sammy's favorite! There's always room for a giant roasted marshmallow after breakfast :)

After breakfast the guys headed out on a mountain bike ride.


Missy and I played on the beach at our campground with the kids.
The guys made it back from their morning bike ride and we had lunch and then they headed to Stanley to meet our neighbors, the Manwaring's, for another bikeride that afternoon.

Missy and I and the kids went to Stanley Lake and the kids played at the Lake while the guys biked. (Tom took my camera so I don't have any pictures of beautiful Stanly Lake) We had a relaxing afternoon but unbeknowst to us the bike ride was quite an adventure. Our neighbor, Jed Manwaring, tried to cross one of the creeks before he scouted it and did a face plant into the creek.
He knew he had really hurt his arm so the bikers performed first aid and wrapped his bleeding arm and made a sling out of his Camel back water bottle and Jedd Smith took the other Jed's bike and they started heading down the trail.
It was another 5 miles to the car so poor Jed Manwaring had to walk with his compound fractured arm. After a priesthood blessing, Patricia drove him down to Ketchum to the hospital there where they had to do surgery to clean out his arm and found that he had 5 broken bones in his elbow. He had surgery in Boise the next day where they put in pins and got him all fixed up. The rest of the bikers headed back to our camp and told us about the adventure. We had a delicious dutch oven dinner that night with lasagna, salad, whole wheat bread and honey butter and watermelon and lots of smore's. Saturday, the guys went on one last bikeride and we packed up the camp and headed home. We had a great time and can't wait to go camping with the Smith's again! (minus the broken elbow adventure!)