Barn Trail Hike

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.

IMG_0927

Here are the boys starting a leaf race in a stream. I don’t know who won, but as always, there was cheating.

IMG_0936

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.

IMG_0947

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.

IMG_0949

Like I said earlier, it was pretty muddy.

IMG_0950

Finally, we made it to the spot where we were supposed to take our picture for the #pixinparks program.

IMG_0952

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.