I’ve lived in Oregon now for almost 10 years and have always wanted to go to the Wallowas. Lindsay and I were supposed to go to Norway for ten days for a good friend’s wedding in July, but alas, our trip was canceled due to the pandemic. We decide to keep the same week off to have something to look forward to in the spring when we are in full tread water mode adjusting to full time work and childcare responsibilities. I casually suggest to my sister Kristin that we meet up to go backpacking and she hardly thinks twice about it, despite an 18 hour drive from Colorado. It didn’t take any effort to convince my brother either. It did, however, take a global pandemic for three of the four Brady siblings to finally go backpacking together for the first time.