Showing posts with label Idyllwild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idyllwild. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Camping in Idyllwild

Kenneth's schedule at work is awesome! He got to pick him own schedule, so we opted on a 9-40 schedule so that every other week Kenneth has a Friday off. His schedule went through last weekend, so we took advantage of the 3 day weekend to go camping! (For the record, we are ashamed to say that this is Danny's first time camping - we realize it is shamefully overdue.)

Ever since getting to Utah, I have noticed how much I miss the mountains (instead of hills) and trees. Kenneth said we should go camping up in the small town of Idyllwild to remind me of the mountains. It was a great idea!! It was absolutely beautiful and we had a wonderful time camping and rock-climbing (naturally).

This is where we climbed - Suicide Rock

It was a steep 30 minute hike, which wouldn't be bad if I didn't have to carry Danny & a backpack, and if Kenneth didn't have to carry a 70-80lbs pack consisting of climbing gear and Danny's pack-n-play. Let's just say that we definitely got a good workout doing the hike 4 times in 2 days!





Danny looking a little out of it on our climb up

A Mojave Rattlesnake Kenneth saw while watering a tree

Trying to get Danny to fall asleep

Climbing slab - I LOVE slab!

A cool tree stump that we found

Danny got his own personal suite while camping

I love this picture of Danny playing under the picnic table

...and playing the drums on the picnic table

Danny had a blast playing in the dirt - as is evident by his dirt-covered face

The conclude, this is the next rock formation we need to climb in Idyllwild. This is the formation Tahquitz - it looks incredible!