Lake Solitude

Last Friday I took the kids hiking. (Good Job reddirtgirl!) We hiked the trail to lake Solitude which starts at Brighton and goes for about 1.5 miles to the lake and then the same trail back. The kids were GREAT.

Sage did not say she was scared even once.

Cooper's informed me in a matter of fact way the he felt "like his ankles were going to break". ( We threw his shoes away when we got home. They were turning his feet in.)

And Cash kept saying "My legs are sure tired but I am just going to DRIVE ON. Right Mom?"

(We had a talk about what Johnny Cash says a few days before.)

All in all though, not a hike a would recommend for kids. It's pretty enough. The wild flowers were nice and there was some snow. The lake is a little anitclimactic--small and you can't get to the shore to throw rocks. The most exciting part was the very BOLD squirrels. As soon as they heard the crinkle of a Dorito bag they were withing 6 inches of us. We were good. We didn't feed them.