Friday, June 5, 2009

Hiking at Hocking Hills and Lake Hope

On Saturday we decided to go hiking around Lake Hope where our cabin was. This is Andy and Maddie hiking in a cave cave near the Nature Center at Lake Hope.

Here is everyone in the cave, we went hiking with our whole family and my brother-in-law Matt's Family. My dad performed his famous one man skit called "rinse the blood off my toga" for everyone in this cave, it was fun to see him do that again.

Brooklyn loved the Nature Center at Lake Hope, we spent like an hour in there looking at the animals and playing with toy animals that you can see here in the picture. Brooklyn loves animals, she is our funny kid that will sit and watch a 2 hour documentary on sharks. She loves documentaries.

Here is happy Evie and I after hiking a trail. Evie loves riding in that back pack. Every time she got sad while on the trail all you had to do was put her back in there and then she was happy as can be.
Evie was a born hiker, she was like this the whole time while hiking, unless you took her out of the back pack, then she was mad.

This is the whole Miller family hiking Old Man's Cave at Hocking Hills. I love this picture because this is the Miller family's element we love being out doors.

Elaina, Makenna, and Brooklyn decided to take a walk over the water fall, the water felt great.

Palmer and I went off roading a little bit at Old Man's Cave, and yes that is Evie with us but don't worry she was perfectly safe.

Maddie is always a bit more hesitant to get in the water, but we finally got her in and she loved every minute. This was the best time to go to hocking hills because of all the water falls were going and the streams were every where, the girls loved playing in all of it.

This is Megan and Duffy with me and the girls. We had to hike through a small river to get to this rock, it was quite a fun challenge with three girls.

Andy and his girls playing in the water falls. Andy becomes a little kid again when he can play with his girls outdoors. He truly loves it.

The whole Young gang up on a bridge while we set up the camera on a back pack to take the picture. That is why it has such a cool angle going on.

Sadie, Maddie, Elaina, Brooklyn, Palmer, and Makenna exploring some boulders along the trail.

On Monday of the trip we decided to go repelling over at "big springs." It was beautiful, the water fall was going and we sat at the bottom of the cliff with the girls watching people repel. We were surrounded by boulders that became a play ground for the girls.

Brooklyn belongs in nature. She could live outdoors barefoot forever.

That is Brooklyn and Makenna at the top of those boulders. This is where Brooklyn belongs, she climbed all the way up those boulders herself while i just sat back and watched. She was born for nature and climbing, i never see her more happy then when she is outside doing stuff like this, she is just like her mother in that sense.

This is "big springs" where we repelled. It is about 120 ft high and beautiful.

This repel is cool because half way down the cliff it dips into a cave, so when you get to that point the belayer on the bottom swings you in and out of the cave, it is so fun. We ended our trip with this last adventure, it was a good ending to a very fun trip. Hocking Hills is so beautiful.

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