[Ryan©]

While this may be my first post I've been lurking around on this forum for a couple of years. I appreciate everyone's trip reports but I usually surf this site from my phone and its a PITA to make comments. On the second last day of summer our Wii became FUBAR so my sister and I have been a little bit restless. So the parental unit suggests that we go on a hike? I'm like WIIFM? The old lady says “You guys like huckleberries, why don't we go on a hike and pick huckleberries?” So I'm in - I love them berries - so we all load into the car but my sister Kasey is still resisting. She claims she's sick. It almost worked but my mom smartly deduced that she was only love sick. Her boyfriend Daniel wasn't allowed to come along boo hoo That little bit of drama made us late but the girls were waiting for us at the trailhead. Best of all Dani had her dog with her. He was nice and stout, not like those rat looking things you see other people hike with. He practically pulled me up the trail, we definitely need to hike with a dog like that in the future. Of course my sister figured out what I was doing and demanded a turn . No problem, I just turn on Star Fox Mode™ and blew right past them. It took about an hour to reach the ridge. No huckleberries, but there were a bunch of people up there already including a volunteer ranger who barked at Dani for stepping off the trail. IANAL but I don't believe that's one of the forest service regulations. I was then promised that we would find huckleberries if we would kept following the ridge until we got to this little snow patch. Sure enough we get there and my mother hands over these tiny little berries that are smaller than a smurf’s balls and declares mission accomplished. Thanks mom, I'll remember that little bit of deception when it comes time to pick your funeral home. Beyond that we had a good time, Kasey and Jasper played in the snow and I showed off my new dance routine for Moves Like Jagger. Just like the name suggests you stumble about like an incontinent octogenarian. FWIW Janet told me we had hiked seven miles that day. Mind her her stride is longer than my entire body so it was closer to 14 miles for me - not bad for a four year old eh? My mother tried to make up for the lack of huckleberries by buying us Ice Cream in Maple Falls. I'll forgive you this time but fool me once... CUL8R

Captain's Log, Hike Date Sept 8th

Fall Colour

New Clear Family

Keep Right, Pass on Left

Sun in Your Eyes Kids?

I Want A Dog

I'm Pumped About Hiking

P90X It Works!

Mountain Yoga

Charge! Up That Mountain

I Want Kids

Read My Shirt

Snow In September

Checking For Crevasses

Heather? Who Is Heather?

Where Are All There Great Views?

Not A Stock Photo

Thumbs Up

I Was Promised Huckleberries

[Elvis]

Great report Ryan! Glad you all had fun. My daughter Alexia now wants to hike there too and meet all of you (plus the dog)! ~E

[iron]

cute pics. the little guy is pumped about hiking!

[Ingunn]

RAT-LOOKING THINGS???

Oh, right.

[Jasper]

It was nice to hike with you and your sister. Thanks for not pulling my tail. Here's some photos my mama took:

"Look sis, just hold on here and this snow pig will pull us up the trail"

Pull, pull, pull

Will hike for Timbits

Baker!

More trail views

Steep!

Summer is coming to an end

Skyline Divide

[Ingunn]

[ree]

Great write-up, Ryan!

[wolfs]

[Backpacker Joe]

Welcome to the site. Yes, nice report. Hey moderators, how was this guy able to get an AVATAR so HUGE???

[Kasey³]