Camping Twin Lakes: Day 2

After waking up (a little too early) to Crew asking Abe, "Hey Dad, what ya' doing?" from the top of the bunk, we had a delicious breakfast. The kids and Abe then headed to the camp managers to inquire about hikes while I cleaned up and packed lunch. I thought they got back and went to look out my opened door when this deer (plus too babies) was about to poke it's nose in. I had an internal freak out and as I was trying to shut the door the deer kept coming closer. (I had visions on this deer trampling me!!) In my fight or flight mode I smashed my finger horribly in the inside hinge and quickly snapped a picture out the window before rolling around in agony on my bed. I hit some nerve that went clear up into my armpit and I felt like a wimp with my nerve on fire!

We then went on a beautiful hike. It was marked as moderate - strenuous but it wasn't too bad. Sawyer did a little bit of it before going on Abe's back and Crew did a good amount of it before getting on my back; in packs of course. There were several switchbacks that would bring us to the falls (it looked more like a falling river with some fall like features) and eventually to the main waterfall that fell down a smooth rock face. It was gorgeous. A little further it plateaued to a small creek, swamp, meadow area. We ate lunch, played around, and waited out a little bit of rain.

We hiked back to the base of that rocky mountain in the back.

We came back to camp and played with some toys, threw lots of rocks in the water, dug in the dirt, and prepared our dinner. We had fun cooking our tinfoil dinner and corn on the coals of the fire.

Throwing rocks up high

Throwing rocks down by the river

Watch out, he has a wild wind up!

"Mom, I have really big muscles" and then proceeds to move a huge rock our of the water and then asks me to throw it. It was heavy!