Thursday, June 25, 2009

REG Hike

Today we took a nice hike over "the Brothers" and "Big Slide" and then down the valley and back out. The weather was great, the views were good and the swim at the end was perfect!
Here are a couple of pictures. The first one shows the boys group scaling the rock face on one of the Brothers. The guy in red is Matt. We (the girls and the old man) stayed close enough for Matt to hide in the woods and give us a good scare.

Here are some of the girls hamming it up on top and then a group shot of the females.


Our western readers will laugh at all of the trees, but for us, this was an awesome hike because we had lots of great views. The hike took just over 4 hours for everyone and we all came out unscathed. We certainly missed Poppets map reading skills, but we still managed not to get lost.


Half way down we crossed this fun bouncy bridge. Janice didn't mind the bouncing, but didn't like the side to side stuff. Every good hike ends with a good swimming hole. Here is a picture of Isabel sliding down the chute and into the "hole".
It was a great day and everyone is excited for our skate L3 and strength workouts tomorrow.

1 comments:

Poppet said...

Nice try Sver, but I need to clarify that it was the map that was faulty (the trail had been discontinued), not my map reading skills! And as I recall Janice gave me the map and told us where to go. So, I'm glad to see that you chose a different hike this year :-).