She who hikes and climbs

I finally had a weekend that had a free day, which seems to be rare these days, and seems to be making life crazy and stressful. I have been missing hiking and climbing... and just being outside.So  I texted L during the week to see if she was free to go hiking on Sabbath (Saturday) and she said yes. I originally had planned on us going to Squak Mountain, but the boys were adamant that they wanted to bring their mountain bikes along. I knew that the trails in Bellingham were biker friendly because we saw them while hiking to  Fairhaven Falls  and  Pine and Cedar Lakes .  I proceeded to do some looking and decided that we were going to hike/bike to Raptor Ridge Overlook. On Sabbath we went to Sabbath school and then came home to eat, change clothes and load the bikes. Eating and loading the bikes took longer then expected so we left my house later then I wanted to. Oh well such is life. To get to the trail take I-5 and get off at exit 246. Go Right onto South S...

We had made plans to go snowshoeing on New Year day, but plans had to be canceled due to various reasons. I was very disappointed to have to cancel, except that is how life goes at times isn't it? We were then going to try and go on Saturday but that didn't' work either. So we planed for Sunday. On Sunday morning Miss A, Cookie the dog and I left later then I had planned on because I had not slept well due to a huge thunder and lighting storm that happened at 3 a.m. I forgot that I had to get gas before picking L up. When we arrived to pick L up we still had not decided on where we were going to go hiking at. While driving Miss A informed us that she wanted to go to Beaver Lake again. (I don't have a post for Beaver Lake because we did that hike before I started the blog.) I stated that I wanted to do a hike that we had not done before, so L pulled out her maps and begun looking at them. Miss A was still adamant that we go to Beaver Lake so L handed the maps to Miss A...