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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Henry Cowell State Park

We have been wanting to go hiking for sometime now. We have heard about many great state parks within an hour and have wanted to check them out. So we decided to go hiking on Labor Day. We came upon a small dilemma when I looked up the many state parks and the majority of them don't allow dogs. Booooooooo! Almost all the of parks that allow dogs are the desert barren ones. I wanted to go hiking in the mountains surrounded by huge trees and gorgeous views. I finally found one park that looked beautiful and allowed dogs (they even gave Rhona a doggie treat when we entered the park). So we were off. The map was very confusing and a 3 mile hike turned into a 6 or 7 mile hike. It was a fun adventure though. We had so much fun and it was a gorgeous hike.
And we're off....(yes, that is a huge tree behind us. I love it.)
Love it!

Water break. Rhona loved the hike. We will definitely be taking her on more hikes if I can find more pretty places she is allowed.
We did it! Rhona's tongue hanging out explains how we all felt after the hike. Side note: Jeff said "I sure wouldn't like to be the person who has to count all the lines on that tree." It dated to before Christ. It had several markings showing different significant years. Amazing!

2 comments:

Silcox Stories said...

Super cool tree! Before Christ-wow, that's incredible. Looks like a fun place to go.

Jeremy and Janessa said...

It looks beautiful! The weather looks perfect too. I am glad you guys went out with Rhona; she looks soooo happy!