Hiking with my family on the perfect day=perfection

We had the most wonderful day hiking up to Winchester Mountain and Lookout. It was gorgeous and perfect weather. We pulled Lachlan out of school for the day (okay we are terrible parents) but we called it a "field trip" as he learned a lot about nature, mountains and got to see all the fall colors. I absolutely LOVE doing this stuff with my family and can't wait until Mack is big enough to go too. Today we left him with his Ma (my mom) though and I am really glad we did considering how steep it was at the top and how busy he is! Although I really missed him-especially not having his little smile in our pictures. The views were breathtaking. The trail started out of two lakes called Twin Lakes and they were so beautiful. They have camping right there so we think it would be fun to camp at the lakes one of these years and do some hiking all around the area. There are working mines and it would be really cool to check them out. I would love waking up in the morning to the views too. It looks like the fishing is great in the lakes as well. The boys gorged on wild blueberries (so did I) and the fall colors were so pretty. The lookout was 6521 elevation and the views were really unbelievable and the pictures don't even compare to seeing it in person!

Starting out at Twin Lakes
wild blueberries
Mt. Baker and mountains in every direction
The very tip of this mountain was our destination!


we should have brought sleeping bags!
The perfect lunch spot
Mt. Baker behind us
6521 elevation

Mt. Larrabee behind us
Twin Lakes from the top
hiking down