Skiing in July!

It's not very often you can ski in shorts and a tank top! Thanks to the adventurin' gang, we hit the slopes well after ski season again!

Nice views from the Going to the Sun Highway.

Views from the hike. 

That's St. Mary Lake WAY down there.

Panorama of our view from the hike!

We saw lots of Mama goats with their kids!

We even saw a kid sledding down a slope to catch his mom!

Happy Hikers!

 

 Victory! We made it to the top!

 Hidden Lake

 

Charlie was the first one to the top, and I looked up as he was

taking his skins off and this lil' fellah was watching over Charlie!

 

It seems so funny to take my ski boots off and put on sandals!

What's a summer ski without an apre ski margarita and wings!?

 

Flower Point

Today I had plans to go up Scenery Peak with some pals from Eureka, but one of their children fell ill so the plans were put on hold for another day! I was kind of bummed because I start my new job tomorrow so today is my last day of FUNemployment! I decided to go pick up Loki the Dawg and do some exploring up Flower Creek. I think I went up there at the nicest part of the day!

The Trailhead

Loki the Dawg is cooling off!

The Beargrass is blooming!

 Lovely view of Sugarloaf Mountain

What's left of the old Flower Point Lookout

Sunday Funday! Granite Falls Hike :)

I ran into a fellow outdoorsy gal at Rosita's the other day and we hastily put together a plan for an outing this weekend! Thank goodness! I couldn't have picked a nicer day to go on an adventure! We just went to the falls because we had some chores to do today too, but the trail looked like it's probably clear all the way to the lake!

Granite Falls - they're rippin' right now!

Nature's cooler!

Who needs lunch when you have Rainers!?

There were LOTS of colorful flutterbies

out in the sun today! 

BIG avalanche! That's snow under all that debris!

 

Loki the Dawg REALLLLLLY wants to

play fetch!!

Georgia On My Mind

I went to Augusta, GA to see Old Crow Medicine Show at a bluegrass festival/BBQ cook off!! It was great fun and definitely one of the BEST shows I've ever seen! It was a quick trip and I didn't take many photos. I was too busy having fun at the festival to take pictures, but on Sunday, we went to a state park called Stone Mountain, which was kind of silly, but the stone 'mountain' is a 1,000 ft. hunk of granite sticking up out of the ground! It's a pretty amazing sight! Those are the only pictures I took. If you want to see what OCMS looks or sounds like, Google em. :)

A giant mass of granite.

Don't take everything for granite!

(I had to . . . )

The only souvenir I brought home from Georgia.

Now I'm peeling. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Happy Turtles!

I've been seeing a lot of these little buggers! They're hard to get a photo of though because the second they hear you they plop off their perch and back into the water!

Spring Skiing at Theriault Pass!

I got to tag along with Julie, my AWESOME tour guide, and her side kick/neighbor, Charlie, for a super sweet May ski! It was such a perfect day!

The Happy Crew

We skinned up to that saddle in the middle
on the right hand side of the trees.

There goes Charlie!

Old snow slide and blue skies

Lovin' the scenery

Apre Ski of the finest selection. :)

Such a beautiful phenomenon!

Just after a crazy rainstorm in Troy yesterday, we had to take a break from the hockey game to go check out this beauty!

Beautiful double rainbow. Best I've ever seen. :)