I read about this Pix in Parks promotion that Santa Clara County Parks does, where they pick seven hikes to encourage people to get out and explore. Most of the hikes seem well within our ability, so I thought we should give it a shot. To that end, our first hike was the Barn Trail hike January 14th. It had been raining a lot so there was quite a bit of mud, but that also meant flowing streams. It was absolutely beautiful and I got lots of great shots, but this is by far my favorite.
Here are the boys starting a leaf race in a stream. I don’t know who won, but as always, there was cheating.
Here’s a shot from right before we realized we’d missed a turn and gone too far. The boys were none too happy that they’d climbed this hill for nothing.
So, we turned back around and, as it was starting to get quite chilly as the sun went down, we hightailed it out. We did stop briefly to say hi to these cows.
Like I said earlier, it was pretty muddy.
Finally, we made it to the spot where we were supposed to take our picture for the #pixinparks program.
By the time we got back, we were all pretty cold — especially Finn who didn’t even have a sweatshirt — but happy to have completed the first hike of the challenge. The rest of my pictures are here.