Friday, June 5th, Climbing part two

After the ropes are secure and the belayer is in position:


The climbing begins:
Steve had never done climbing this way before and he loved it. He was rather like a spider and did 4 climbs in total.
Our friend Roland came to learn to belay and to help Chuck so he could also climb.
Catie loves to do this and was successful for two climbs.
I got brave and attempted it. I have only done this once before and got about 20 feet off of the ground and freaked out. This time I got about twice as far and freaked out a little. By the way, does that harness make my butt look fat??? Don't answer that, because it even makes Steve's butt look fat.
Aren't they just so cute???

After they all had climbed that area as much as they wanted, Chuck and Roland moved the ropes to another area:
It has this interesting hole at the top that the climbers actually come up through.
So, I went up to the top with them and then took off for a hike along the bluff and to the south beach area.

I won't bore you with all of the flora pics I took, but the forest was in bloom and I was entranced by all of the wildflowers. I also listened to a book while hiking. I thought I would only be hiking for about an 1 1/2 hours, but ended up on a long trail and it took over 2 hours. Needless to say, I was sore!!!
The view was incredible!!
I got back from my hike just in time to see Chuck's head pop up in the hole:
After gathering all of the equipment, and the difficult hike down, we head to a favorite place to eat, "Log Cabin Restaurant". We were hoping for a fish fry and were not in the least disappointed, but it is never a bad meal at the Log Cabin.
What a great day!!! Catie wanted Steve to experience Oberweiss Ice Cream, so we took a long way home and capped off the day with a cool treat.