Rob's birthday was on Columbus Day, all he really wanted to do was use his smoker to do up some tasty meat while drinking beer and relaxing... before I knew this great wish I signed us up to tag along with the Sevin's on a hike of Pack Monadnock... Oops! My bad!
We took the Wapack Trail up which is a very steep trail for the most part with lots of climbing with all fours.. especially when you are four feet tall or shorter! On the way up Caden and Cole S were trailblazers with Rob with Cora on his back.. all Rob really wanted to do was get to the top, get to the bottom and go home... who knew it was going to take TWO HOURS! to get to the top! and the boys were having a grand old time following the "clues" (trail markers) and looking for bears.
Buddies on the trail
Here they go! Up one of the steeper, rockier portions of the trail .
These yellow triangles are what kept us going.. although we were really wishing for a "you're almost there" sign!
Mr. B had Charlotte on his back as well.. The guys didn't need a gym workout after that days adventure.
One of the views on our way up, it seemed the foliage hadn't peaked much. This was actually only about 15 minutes into our hike.. interestingly the views weren't much better from the top, you have to hike the ridge trail to get the views, but no one was in the mood for extra walking (I lie.. Kelly and I probably would have :) ) But we did go to the top of the fire tower where you could see much more than if you stayed on the ground.
The trailblazers
Patriots fans (yes Caden's is Randy Moss, he was actually wearing it the day he got traded)
Cole decided he wanted his picture taken.. how could I say no? We though up all sorts of words ending in the "eee" sound to get him smiling, as "cheese" is NOT the look we are going for anymore (wide fake smile looking anywhere but at the camera)
Cole's imagination is giant... he loves seeing shapes in the clouds, in his ketchup on his plate.. and here is his turtle rock.. I see it! do you?
Cora was working so hard she fell asleep
Cole started getting really tired on the way up.. I carried him the last 1/4 mile or maybe less, but we found this cool branch so we had to go under it.
We made it to the top!
and some of us are still smiling!
We opted for the trail down.. we could have just walked down the auto road, but where is the fun in that?
Before we headed down we went to the top of the fire tower.. can you see Boston in the middle of the horizon? Cool!
On the way down Cole wanted to point to EVERY trail marker.. and while I was enjoying myself a lot, i did want to get to the bottom before dark! Cole was getting tired of walking so maybe he was just using the markers as an excuse to sit down!
Rob caught wind that Cole was getting tired and wanted to be carried and this image was the last time I saw them! Daddy scooped him up with Cora still on his back and headed to the bottom with Mr. B and Charlotte. So Kelly and I headed down with Caden and Cole S.. we were the happy half of our hiking group! (Charlotte and Cora were also perfectly happy.. but they were stuck on the backs of those who might not want to be hiking!)
Caden is a tree hugger (haha!)
We got to the bottom in half the time it took us to get to the top. Lunch was sitting out waiting for us! Perfect timing! And we had brought Daddy a chocolate peanut butter birthday cake.. Mmmm.. now that should put a smile on any one's face!
And here we are.. the whole hiking bunch. Thanks for having us along! It was a beautiful day for a hike, and a lot of fun (I thought!)
1 comment:
I feel really badly that Rob was so miserable! I can brush off Brendan's complaining because, well, that's what I do, but I really felt bad about Rob!
On the flip side, Cole and Caden had a GREAT time, didn't they?! I loved that!
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