Muddington News: FROZEN TOES AND MORE

My friend and I decided it would be fun to load up a carload of gear and kids and do an overnight. This happened to coincide with the first really cold weekend of the year. But we being the burly Alaskan's the cold was met with a shrug of the shoulders (and a BUNCH of extra blankets). Here is the story of a wild weekend of frozen toes and much much more.

The crew. I was pushing the stroller loaded with sleeping gear and other necessaries.

We actually had zero idea as to where we were going to camp. No one in our group had been down this trail before. That increased the adventure quotient and we had many stops to see what we could see.

By the look on AK's face one would expect that we had been hiking several hours at this point when in fact it was more like 45 minutes.

Our spot offered us tons of wood for a warm warm fire.

Lots of benches.

And a lovely creek to lull us to sleep at night.

The kids were intent on raising my blood pressure by attempting to knock as much ice into the water as possible. This was done by stomping on the thin ice over about 4" of water, NICE! Dry toes are happy toes everyone off the ice now!

The next morning we went on a hike and met this little guy on the way up to check out some snow we saw from the trail. Cute little porcupine, we named him Sticky.