Usually, our backpack trips wind up being a grueling test of endurance, friendships and marriage. It’s not too often I get to sit on a log in idle contemplation for a full half-day, watching the day slowly and inexorably turn into night. Yet last weekend’s backpack trip to the Sixes River found me doing that very thing. While John Malone and I have enjoyed many an epic hike together, this time he brought his Teddy, and I do refer to his dog. Per John, Teddy has the heart of a lion, but unfortunately, Teddy also has the 2-inch-long legs of …