1 Here we are, finally, at the Mt. Zion trail head. I've been wanting to do this one for two years now. Long fire road to get there, but look at all the other people who decided to come! Cool!
2 Ready to roll!
3 Found a new setting on the GPS - see the one in blue? It is vertical feet per minute. Another way to see how fast we're climbing, especially relevant on a steep hike, which this one is. It's why we hadn't come yet - all the reviews made me think it was other-wordly. It wasn't. Nothing that we haven't done before.
4 Funny face time!
5 A family tradition!
6 Hmmm...Sam is nearly through with the series so this was intriguing!
7 Both boys pondering Narnia :)
8 A sense of the trail. Really nice to be out there, climbing.
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10 Boy boys carrying their own waters in new Platypus bottles.
11 Funny guy! They switched off leading really well this time. It's only taken 3 years of trying to get them to do that!
12 Summit snacks!
13 You can't see Mt. Baker, but we could. Nice up there! They really enjoyed packing their snacks up. We were at the top in one hour, flat, to the minute. It was 1.8 miles and 1,300 ft elevation gain to the summit, which is at 4,300 ft.
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15 And we ran into a family from their school! How funny!
16 Seeing who we can "raise" on the walkie talkies this time :)
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18 No end of fun!
19 The faces are so funny!
20 So pretty in the valley.
21 Love this shot.
22 Love you boys! Thanks for being there with me! I enjoyed every step :)
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24 Now for some really silly stuff!
25 A mosstache!!!
26 Ben looks bald!
27 On the way down we had to see if there were any interesting rocks. And there were! We filled the back of the truck with a few good specimens.
28 He's checking them all. Probably spent 15 min doing this?
29 Yeah! Ice cream!
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31 Sent these pictures to daddy on Long Island where he was at his cousin's wedding :)
