The Scar....

Since it was so nice this past week, we decided to take the kids hiking on the "Scar"...named, we suppose because it is somewhat barren looking from the Springs. All of the other mountains around it are tree covered, but apparently there was some mining or something going on there - the cool thing is that the Bighorn sheep hang out there. Austin and Anaya were very excited to see them. I have to say that a major part of my prayer that morning was that we would see some...and behold, our prayers were answered. About a mile up the trail, we spotted about 40 of them!

There were many 'snack stops' along the trail. Austin wanted to make sure we took a picture of his backpack!

Of course, there were other things besides sheep on the trail....ROCKS! It was fun to throw them over the edge into the canyon and wait to hear the 'clunk' when it hit bottom!

"I need to rest."

It was warm, and the hike was long, but we finally made it to the top....or so we thought. Still a mile or so to go....

One of the highlights of the trip was discovering the remains of a deer. Anaya was visibly moved by this, and throughout the rest of the hike talked about the 'broken' deer. She wanted to see it again on the way down.

"I need to rest."

They did a great job - 5 miles!