Mt. Timpanogos Cave

Last week to celebrate the end of summer (for us...preschool started this past Monday) we hiked up to Timpanogos Cave.
3 mile round trip...height over 6000 feet...through the caves...and back down again.

Up, up, and away. Carter walked the entire way...most the time ahead of us. He is so in his element hiking and out in nature. Taylee walked...sometimes. A lot of the time she wanted to be held. And contrary to the one picture I'm holding her in, Ty did most of the holding...and he barely broke a sweat. The hike taught me that I am severely out of shape. I was pretty much gasping for air and my legs were trembling by the time we reached the top.

The caves were neat. San Antonio is near Natural Bridge Caverns, so I took many field trips to caves in school and it was pretty much like all the others (except you don't have to hike up 6000 ft to get to them :) It was our kids' first time and they were really excited (except for the no touching ANYTHING part for Tay...that was a struggle).

Carter got to be the special helper to be "kissed" by the cave. He got a little nervous having everyone watch him.

Ready for the descent...kinda. Carter's showing on the map here the trail up the mountain.

Taylee completely konked out on Ty's shoulders after a few minutes on our descent. It doesn't look very comfortable, but she slept very soundly. And every hiker who passed us stopped to tell us she was asleep...

It was a hard hike...but so much fun to do together as a family. We're thinking about making it a family tradition to the start of school. If we can hike up a mountain together, we can conquer anything together.