It was approaching the end of our trip and since we weren't able to go on the RV trip with my sister and her family (their RV broke down the weekend before we came out to CA), we decided to drive up towards Mt. Lassen and do a hike with the kids and Granny and Papi. We drove up quite a bit of the ways, so on the beginning of our hike, we already had quite a view!
My three hiker boys!
It was July, but there were still patches of snow here and there on our way up the mountain.
This stake says "To Humboldt Peak." It was a good thing we noticed it because there were a couple of different directions we could have taken and this stake kept us on track.
Here we are at the top of the peak (plus Granny who is taking the photo)!!
We found a permanent marker (gold circle by Gabriel's left hand in photo above) on the rocks at the top of the peak that tell you where you are and how high the elevation was. Ayden won't let me forget how high up we hiked...it was 7,082 feet (we didn't hike all that way...we started out most of the way up)! Gabriel is pointing to where we were on the map. :)
I had to snap a photo of the little red tin that we found also that was hiding in the rocks. We could barely get the lid off, but we managed to pry it off and find a little notebook that served as a guest book for those who had hiked to the top! The notebook was started about ten years prior. There was a little pencil in there as well, so of course we all signed it.
Ayden wanted to write his own name and draw a picture as well.
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