Field Trip! Visiting Camp Hinckley

Last Friday Bossy needed us to run to Camp Hinckley and pick up Taco for his baseball tournament. I think I told you already that he made the All Stars team and he had to be back on Friday or he wouldn't be able to play. Since Bossy and Gamer both had to work, we braved the High Uintahs to bring him home.

Curly need a day trip to finish his Bear for Cub Scouts, so we decided to make a day of it and enjoy some of the sites. We piled into my car at about 7:30 in the morning with the 3 youngest. It was a long trip and Crafty and Sport had homework, so they stayed behind.

Our first real mountain stop was this beautiful set of waterfalls. We took a small hike and enjoyed the slight spray and the dull roar of the falls before climbing back up to the car. Our next stop was Mirror Lake. Since Curly had to do a hike, it seemed like the perfect place. They had a nice trail that ran all around the lake and it was relatively flat and even.

The only problem was that they were cutting down trees and every few minutes we could hear "Timber!" ringing out through the magic of the clear lake. There were lots of people fishing and a few just hiking like us. When we finally made it all the way around, we got trapped at the edge of the parking lot while they felled another tree. It was fun to watch, but it messed up our timing a bit and we had to hurry to make it the rest of the way to the camp.

Then we had to actually find Taco, which proved to be much harder than you would think. We got back to home just in time to drop the girls at Day Comp... but that's a tale for another day.