This was a tough hike! It was only 5miles, but for more than 2miles we hiked a steady, unforgiving incline to nothing all that spectacular. I mean… if you’re going to spend hours hiking straight uphill with 25+lbs. of dense weight on your back, it better end in some sort of amazing view or waterfall right? Seriously! Oh well… we still had a great time enjoying the beautiful northwest greenery and the peaceful (sometimes whiny) solitude with our family.
The beginning of the Summit Spring trailhead somewhere NE of Battleground beyond Sunset Falls campground.
When not on Aaron’s back, Malia loves hiking and exploring.
Family snapshot!
After the incline, we forged our way (downhill thankfully) along an old logging road. In the pic below I am standing in the middle of the “trail.”
Good thing we wore pants! There were several overgrown areas that made it difficult to tell where to go. We’d stop for a break or to take care of a kid and look back up and go “crap, which direction were we headed?” We finally broke out of the mangled jungle forest and met up with a new trail.
Even though this hike was missing that amazing view point or waterfall, the scenery was beautiful and impressive.
Snake!
Allie is such a good baby and has made it so easy to enjoy the outdoors.
Lunch break!
We were so worn out by this point. I think the uphill KILLED us in the beginning. That, and we brought a lot of extra water since we ran out on our last hike which added weight to the packs. We were so ready to head back home!
And… I finally got a good picture of our funny teethed baby! She got all four of those teeth at the same time. She looks so funny not having both of her upper front teeth. I mean, what kid grows #F & #G, but not #E? Weird… but still so cute!
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