Our hike

So it isn't every Christmas Eve in Denver that you can take a long hike in a valley because the weather is in the 50s.  It was perfect :)  I know that someday there will be snow- and I can wait.


It was cold enough to need hats- here is Lilly, being the cute little girl she is.  She slept on my back whole hike so the only photo I have of her is before when we were eating lunch.

 Mark did hike the whole 2 miles- without any whining!  But he did find a lot of things to do along the trail that were not so fast.  For instance he wanted to hide under all the big boulder and in all the hiddy holes, he wanted to draw in the sand, he wanted to touch that water (it was cold), and he wanted to pick up rocks for dinosaur food.  My coat pocket is full of rocks and sand now.

 We had to cross the creek here- there was no bridge and the final hop was kinda far - especially for getting Mark, the stroller, and me with Lilly in the pack across

Speaking of the stroller, the BOB stroller we have will go over a lot of terrain, but not this.  The trail looked flat when we started, but then 90% of it was not flat enough for a kid in the stroller and a few parts of it were so steep/rocky that it had to be carried.  I only have photos of Tim hauling it, but Grandpa did quite a bit of it too.

S