Lord Hill Regional Park

These days Sam tries to make a silly face in about half of the photos I take

A couple of weeks ago, the weather was really lovely over the weekend and we were able to go out and explore Lord Hill Regional Park for the first time. This park is up on Monroe, but we felt it was well worth the drive. There were lots of different trails to take (see map). We went along the Beaver Lake Trail, and then went along the Pipeline trail and a Pipeline Cutoff trail, until we got to the Main trail. Eventually we took another Pipeline Cutoff trail to get to a viewpoint, which had a 630' elevation. There is another viewpoint in the park with a 650' elevation, and maybe we will try to do that one later this year.

The sunlight was so gorgeous while we were outside; I was so happy to be outside, in the sun, with my family. When we were hiking, I told Sam that I feel most alive when I am outside in nature, hiking with my family. I like to feel my heart beating while I hike, because it reminds me that I am just as alive as the plants that I see thriving around me. J chimed in and said that he likes to be reminded of how much nature there is in the world, and that there are a lot of places that manmade or affected by mankind. I hope that sharing these types of comments help to instill a love of hiking (or at least of nature) in Sam and Lucy.

Along one of the Pipeline Cutoff trails

 The Main Trail

 Second Pipeline Cutoff trail, just before the rise to the view point

You can see the Olympics in the distance on this side

View of the Cascades on the other side of the viewpoint

Sam was a trooper, and I think that we hiked around four miles altogether. I think that it was really fun for him to reach that view point, because he could visually see how far he had climbed through the spectacular vista.