Saturday, August 18, 2012

Sleeping Giant State Park

We live about 10 minutes away from Sleeping Giant State Park. It's a two mile stretch of hill that resembles (supposedly) a sleeping giant. It is riddled with trails, the main of which is wide and gravelly enough for the chariot. We visited there a few weekends ago and hiked the mile and a half up to a stone observation tower. I was so incredibly proud of Abby for hiking the whole way up without complaint! She started to complain on the way down, but thanks to some long, drawn out renditions of the three billy goats and Jack and the beanstalk (which I couldn't remember the ending of), she made it all the way down too. I can't say it's a nice way to get some solitude, since there were tons of other people on the trail, but it is a nice way to get some fresh air.

The trail.

Abby taking pictures of the trail markers.....again.

Abby and Alex atop the viewing tower.

The View.



The Crew.

2 comments:

Jess said...

Is the Chariot really easier than an Ergo on your back? I'm impressed!

Sus Mettler said...

At the time we did this, he was too small to put on our back. And it gets really hot on the front. And you can put other things in the Chariot too. But now that his head control is so good, we won't be using the Chariot for hiking.