Hike to Long Lake

On Saturday of our camping trip we went on one of the most beautiful hikes I have ever been on. It was gorgeous. We started at the Crystal Lake trail head. I was pretty nervous when we got there. Here are Scott and I with our baby in a Baby Bjorn front pack ready for a nice little hike and we were surrounded by hard core hikers. I didn't see another woman and everyone we did see was a boy scout or boy scout leader and they had huge packs on like they had been living in the mountains all summer. We headed out on our 4 mile hike anyway and it was perfect. We found beautiful fields of wild flowers all along the way. We stopped to take pictures of Brie in the flowers until she started eating them.

We hiked to Long Lake and stopped there for a picnic. It was a very pretty setting. Brielle was getting very tired though and as we sat there we started hearing thunder. It was a loud roaring thunder and it was scaring me. We looked up and the sunny sky at the beginning of our hike had turned into a big dark black cloud above us. We ate quick and then tried to get going on the 2 miles back to the car. Luckily, it never rained on us, but it certainly rained hard just up the road from us.