East Coast

We (Matt, Martha, Meagan, Morgan) finally made it to Cochran Falls this past Sunday.  It was a beautiful day and we set out to explore with Jack and Jill at our heels.  We took the truck to the trail head since there were a couple of big creeks between farm house and the start of the trail and the dogs followed us the whole way.  They are very fast.

We didn’t intend to take them, but we had a moment of realization that hadn’t occurred to us before.  If Jack and Jill follow us to the falls, well, they are still our responsibility.  This became especially important when they came upon a campsite with a small dog that was more like Bailey,Barley (excitable) than Jack,Jill (mellow).   A few tense moments for all when J2 tried to make friends, some scraps of rope for make shift leashes, and we were happily underway.

Overall – a very cool hike and very close to home.  Unfortunately a wrong turn and a downed tree kept us from seeing the main falls but we will be back.

Matt took a couple pictures along the way that we will post to the Gallery.

West Coast

Dad has a new hiking gadget!

I thought this was really cool and he gave me permission to post the link, so here it is:  https://share.delorme.com/DonaldGoodliffe#

I love the fact that you can see the hike at regular intervals. This will be especially great so when he is on a long hike, we will be able to find him if he falls off a Mountain :).

His weekend hike looks like a very cool hike with a serious elevation change (over 2000 foot increase).   Wow!

Love to all!