We have been up to a few things lately. Two weeks ago on Friday, we both ditched out early from work, grabbed the beagles, and met up with our friends Kyle and Katrina, their son Ian and dog Rain and then proceed to the Snoqualmie-Baker National Forest for a short afternoon day hike. It wasn't that far but we hiked up to a lake and back in light rain and a few thunder claps. It was a fun quick trip. I have a few pictures that I will post soon hopefully.
This last weekend we took Friday off, got all of our back packing gear together and headed up to Lake Wenachee with the dogs to the base of the Phelps Creek Trail/Spider Meadows trail (trail 1511). Larissa and I and the dogs hit the trail at about 1pm and made it to Spider Meadows at about 6 or 7pm. This trail is about 6 miles long (to the point that we camped, it can be a lot longer) and has about 2,000 ft of elevation gain. It was a blast. There ended up being a fair amount of patchy snow on the trail, even though the area got up into the low 90's the two days we were there. If we had known that the many rivers we crossed were as high as they were and that the snow was that prevalent, we would have worn our gators or taken sandals for the rivers, but hey it was kind of nice to have wet feet in 90 degree weather. The trail for the most part wove in and out of the forest along Phelps Creek, so the heat wasn't that bad unless you were in the sun. We spent the night In Spider Meadows and hiked back out the next morning. Next time we are going to go for more then one night, as you take almost the same amount of gear, just more food. We all had a blast and the beagles slept for almost the next 3 days. :)
I promise I will post pictures soon, I got a new lens for my camera for that trip, so I was able to take my digital SLR and a good do-everything lens, which made taking an slr easier.
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