Last Weekend's Hike

Last weekend's hiking trip!  We're not sure what the trail is called, but it starts out at the Flat Top parking lot, goes along Powerline, hangs a left on the Little O'Malley trailhead and it put us somewhere between Little O'Malley and Big O'Malley peaks.  Thought we'd share some pics.

Aubs and her friend Jane hanging in the car before the hike.

We've had the best weather this summer.  It was the perfect evening for a hike.

The landscape was beautiful and these puffy, misty clouds kept rolling through while we hiked.

 Still a little snow along the trail

This wasn't the summit, but we were getting closer.  We paused and got this sweet pic of Holly and Aubree silhouetted against the sun.

It was at this point that we left Aubree in the care of our hiking partners and great friends the Murdocks.  They did the hike with a 6 week-old and a toddler - yeah, props to them! Holly and I ran ahead to to make it to the end of the trail where we hoped to find a lake (at least that is what we had been told we would find).

The Murdocks

I sucked wind behind Holly for probably a mile or more to get to the end, realizing just how out of shape I've gotten, but we made it!

 On the way back we were booking it because we were sure Aubree would be a crying mess (we were right!), but while we were running back the clouds came in really thick and we couldn't help but take a couple of pictures.

The hike out felt like it took 3x as long as the hike in...three tired, hungry kids and four exhausted adults...we didn't make it back to the parking lot until after 11:00PM.

Oh, and we saw a moose...