June 2013 Fun Fun Fun!!!

We made this our summer of biking and hiking!  Last year was caving.

Our first biking adventure was taking our bikes down to the greenbelt riding around, having lunch and riding home.  Much easier of a ride than I initially thought it was going to be.  We biked down 17th, it was busy and a lot of construction, Cierra ended up taking a bad spill down by the Sandwich tree, she about didn't get back on her bike.  We walked it for a bit then she was fine.  We stopped at the Jimmy Johns down by Walmart, rode around the Greenbelt some more then took John Adams home, that street has a fantastic bike lane all the way from Holmes to Hitt.  Then we cut through Walmart's parking lot and we were home.  Great ride. It took us from 10 am to 2 pm and that was stopping for lunch and around the greenbelt a little.

A couple weeks later we took a drive out to Menan to hike the Butte.  The first half mile is pretty steep, but after that its just a nice walk around the rim,  there are a couple of places that you walk over rock so the trail kinda disappears but its easy to find again.  We took Daken with us, which I loved!  Its fun to have a guy around to help out, Abbie took Hailey and Cierra took Sammy with us.  It was a nice day!

 On our walk around the rim they were doing some summer firefighter training, it was pretty cool to see all the guys and gals in full uniform and carrying a tool of some sort or other on their "march".

 A few signs and trail markers along the way.  Daken even found rocks for the girls to push off the edge just to watch it fall.

 Do you like my heart cactus?  Looking up at the climb, they even have post planted so you can pull yourself up if the shale is to slippery. Checking out the valley and the cute Hobbit house in Menan was Cierra's favorite.