Today was finally a decent sunny day, compeling us to come out of hibernation and do something outside! We spontaneously decided to take a hike into the local Skagit Oso mountain range. These are the falls that welcomed us as we started the incline on the one-way logger road to the top.
We brought along our trail guide, "Buddy," he's always got to be in the front!
This was our view from the top, you could see for miles! The river down below is our Skagit River, it snakes its way throughout our valley and town.
We found some neat things like waterfalls, huge stumps, toads, shopping cart, an old vehicle that had fallen from a cliff, flowers of all kinds, and green raspberrys and huckleberrys. Our whole purpose was to be outside, but also to come home with lots of huckleberries! No such luck, but it was fun to explore anyway.
Daniel was showing me his new find, a toad, when the toad decided to take a dive at the camera! I ended up with this cool action shot of the toad!
We were in search of huckleberries, but they weren't quite ready, maybe we'll check back in a month, if the bears haven't eaten them all! I was hoping to see a bear! Go figure, you hike into the mountains where the berries are and no bear, yet there was a bear spotted just a block from our house by a man walking his dog in a neighborhood! Where are the bears when you need them?!
The boys had great fun pitching large rocks into the pools are the base of this waterfall. Buddy, of course, had to go wading and then proceeded to shake it all off, getting us wet too!
We brought along our trail guide, "Buddy," he's always got to be in the front!
This was our view from the top, you could see for miles! The river down below is our Skagit River, it snakes its way throughout our valley and town.
We found some neat things like waterfalls, huge stumps, toads, shopping cart, an old vehicle that had fallen from a cliff, flowers of all kinds, and green raspberrys and huckleberrys. Our whole purpose was to be outside, but also to come home with lots of huckleberries! No such luck, but it was fun to explore anyway.
Daniel was showing me his new find, a toad, when the toad decided to take a dive at the camera! I ended up with this cool action shot of the toad!
We were in search of huckleberries, but they weren't quite ready, maybe we'll check back in a month, if the bears haven't eaten them all! I was hoping to see a bear! Go figure, you hike into the mountains where the berries are and no bear, yet there was a bear spotted just a block from our house by a man walking his dog in a neighborhood! Where are the bears when you need them?!
The boys had great fun pitching large rocks into the pools are the base of this waterfall. Buddy, of course, had to go wading and then proceeded to shake it all off, getting us wet too!
We climbed this makeshift ladder into this little pool of water made by a cascading waterfall. It's hard to actually see it in these pictures, you'd have to be here!
We didn't pay attention to the "hiking shoes" that Cameron grabbed prior to leaving the house; he wore his water boots, that actually weren't waterproof, so we found! He ended up with blisters on both heels by the end of the day. So today at church he had to wear his crocs, least they matched the colors in his shirt! He's just an unpredictable one, but lots of fun!
We didn't pay attention to the "hiking shoes" that Cameron grabbed prior to leaving the house; he wore his water boots, that actually weren't waterproof, so we found! He ended up with blisters on both heels by the end of the day. So today at church he had to wear his crocs, least they matched the colors in his shirt! He's just an unpredictable one, but lots of fun!
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