Hiking Cecret Lake!

Oh the joy of hiking in a beautiful mountain full of wildflowers seeing gorgeous scenery and being with family! John, Tracie and Cedar came to town and we were able to go up Little Cottonwood Canyon and hike to Cecret Lake. It was awesome! The hike was perfect!

Even the drive up the mountain was fabulous! The weather in the valley below was so hot and getting to high elevation with cool mountain air was absolutely wonderful!!

Mara and Tracie enjoying the colorful summer flowers! Tracie is quite the hiker even at 5 months pregnant!! 

 

Caleb too wanted a picture with the flowers! He loved hiking and climbing on all the rocks!

We had to park a little bit away from the actual trail head because it was such a popular hike! We took a little longer hike down this road before the trail actually began!

 

Here is our hiking crew (minus Carder who was asleep in the pack!) Cedar did awesome on the hike! She loved climbing the mountain!

Man vs wild!! The kids favorite show! We found this lean-to already constructed! We thought the kids might like staying in it over night! (nope!)

Ty is the king of the world! He couldn't help but climb the boulder after seeing Uncle John do it!

Then Caleb climbed up there too! It doesn't look very high in the picture, but it sure felt high up there when both my boys were on the top!

Mara wanted to do what the boys did so she too climbed up the rock!

Playing in the snow in July?! We found some snow along the hike and Caleb wanted to play in it! 

We made it to the top!! The view was worth the hike! We enjoyed a picnic lunch right along the lake. 

Nate and I did this hike many years ago before we had kids. It was a lot of fun to hike it again as a complete family! The kids sure enjoyed putting their feet in the lake and cooling off! 

 The only downside to the perfect day was the bugs when we got to the lake! As you can see from Ty's hat the bugs were disgusting and plentiful! They didn't bite, but they just bugged us!!

 Grandma Lewis came with us on the hike. Carder and Grandma taking a little rest!

The hike back down went by so quick! We all practically ran down the mountain! It was a great hike, the clouds started rolling in as soon as we were done. We barely missed a downpour! Glad we were able to get a hike in with John and Tracie! It sure was fun to see them!