After breakfast of cerial and Pop Tarts... dad wasn't planning on doing any cooking!... we unloaded our toys and hit the trail.
The snow is still hanging in the most shaded areas. Here is Ryan busting a drift on her ATV.
We also encountered a few mud puddles. This one looked bad but had a solid bottom and was fairly shallow.
We then headed out to my favorite overlook. I was suprised to see sheep out there.
It used to be common to find them out there, but I haven't seen them in years. I didn't see a herder around, but he couldn't have been too far away.
Ryan wanted to pet one. I said she could try...
But they wouldn't let her get anywhere near them.
We later went back to the cabin, played some games, took a (mountain) bike ride, hiked, searched for morel mushrooms (none found), drove down to town to McDonalds for dinner (a story in itself), came back to the cabin and watched "Bridge To Terabithia", and then hit the sack out on the deck again.
We again had cerial and Pop Tarts for breakfast and took another ATV ride.
Ryan was leading the way and suddenly stopped for this.
No sooner did we shoo the snake off the road, we saw this little frog.
While stopped, I needed a picture of my ATV pal.
We started packing up around 12:30pm and here I am locking up the cabin just before 2pm.
The truck and trailer are loaded and ready to head out. No, you can't ride home on the trailer!
Ryan snapped this one of me while I was opening up the gate just before we pulled out.
Dropping down off the mountain, we drive through some wheat farmland before reaching town. I've been driving past this cool old barn for more than 30 years and have always wanted to get a picture of it. Today the sun was right and I was in no rush...
Yeah, we could have stayed another day since it is a holiday weekend, but I knew that both my daughter and wife were missing each other. We'll get another trip up pretty soon and bring Kathryn and her ATV too.
can be sure to find very little -if any- father/ daughter bonding time.
