Last week we got a new (to us) van, so I decided that since we now had a car that could carry all of us safely up the canyon without overheating, that we should head up for a hike. We decided on Cecret Lake since it has been a few years since we had taken the boys on that hike.
The fall colors in the canyon are so bright and awesome right now. We were driving up in the morning, so the sun seemed to accent the colors a lot too. It was a great drive.
We had a lot of fun on the hike as well. There was a fair bit of complaining from the troops on the amount of up hill hiking that we had to do on the way there. But we were finally able to convince them that part of climbing a mountain was the go up up up on the way. Finn was also doing a lot of complaining on the steepest part because he was hungry and thought we were taking too long to get to the lake.
Finn all ready to go on his first long hike.
We had to stop a do a bit of rock climbing a long the trail.
Henry got up pretty high and then got a bit scared, but still managed to make his way down.
Wyatt was obsessed with every rock along the trail and his favorite line was, "More Yocks. I get them. I get Yocks." I love how cute and old he looks in his jeans after a long summer of shorts.
We finally made it up to the lake. It was lower than I have ever seen it, but still very cool.
There was a lot of time spent throwing rocks and more rocks into the lake.
A cool look at the lake surface.
Wandering out on a rock ledge.
Finn and I hung out in this spot most of the time while I tried to convince him that it was ok to eat while there was a slight breeze. He was not loving that part.
Just getting to "Ride shoulders." with Dad. Wyatt was super bossy to Caleb and kept insisting that Caleb keep on hand on each of Wyatt's feet.
Some handsome men with a great view.
There wasn't much color at the top of the mountain, but here are a few more shots from our drive.
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