She who hikes and climbs

On the Saturday after Veteran's day L and I took 2 of my kiddos and the dog on a hike. Since it was so cold and sunset is so much earlier, and L had some duties to perform at church, we chose a nice short hike. After church was done the kids and I came home, ate, changed, and packed the dog into the car and headed to L's house. We picker her up and drove to Fairhaven Falls trail head. Once we arrived the small parking lot area was very full and as you can see in the picture below we had to park along the shoulder of the road, and had to cross the road to get to the trail head. This is a busy road so please be careful while crossing it. Once we crossed the road we were able to walk on this path that felt somewhat safer. We saw this sign at the beging of the trail head that read that there were salmon sightings. It answered our question as to why it was so busy and why there were so many cars. Once we read the sign we decided to follow them. Which was simple sinc...

On Monday November 12 L and I went hiking, just the 2 of us. We both had the day off since it was Veterans Day and my kids didn't want to come along and I didn't want to bring the dog. It was really nice to spend time with just her. We had not seen each other in a couple of weeks. I met L at her place and we took her car to Pine and Cedar Lakes Trailhead. It isn't that far south of  Bellingham. We made it to the parking lot around 10 a.m. We had planned on earlier but I was running late. The original plan was for me to bring the kids, then only Miss A wanted to come. However when she found out that she had to wear longjohns under her hiking pants, she wanted nothing to do with it. This in turn caused me to leave later then I had planned on. Once L and I arrived at the parking lot, which is a decent size, we found it to be fairly empty.  (FYI there is a port a potty.) I will apologize now for the quality of the first few pictures, for some reason my camera...