More Miscellany

We've been busy, but not too busy writing blogs. So I'll go back a couple of weeks to a hike we did not too far from our new home: Elk-Thurston. It's a high ridge with a couple of summits. We only did the first summit-ish because visibility was nil, it was cold, and there was really no point. It was nice to get out of the house though.

This was the best we could do for a view for a few seconds. Barely worth writing about, but here it is...

 This is a walk we did to a waterfall up the road. Just something to do around here.

 I over-photoshopped this, but here it is anyways.

 It was nice.... we may go back for a picnic if summer ever decides to show its face.

Obviously she had fun.











Then a highlight, Krista came over and was our first official house guest. We made her sleep on the floor. And if that wasn't enough, we found a mountain for her to climb. It was pretty though, and I might be talked into going back there someday.

On the trail: it was still easy at this point.

 A nice little lake near the top. We decided to skip the summit proper because we were too lazy, lunch was tasty, and why leave a spot like this?

 Maggie was lazy.

 We were tired, but putting on a brave face.

More nice views of the forest on the way up. It was a nice hiket, going through at least two distinct ecosystems, but Krista and Sarah didn't seem too interested, so I spared them.

We went camping last weekend, I'll post about that later.