Mason and I decided last week we needed to get out and just play in the mountains. We headed out for the cabin on the hill, and some great mountain biking. We rode our bikes out to and up Mount Jefferson, almost to the whole way but ran out of daylight so we had to turn around. We really focused on going light and easy, dinner was a can of chili still in the can and a frozen pizza cooked between two skillets. Hard to beat chili on a cold fall evening.
After dinner we shot up to West Yellowstone and grabbed some ice cream at Arrow Leaf, they are making them bigger than ever now. Boy did they taste great! Made that killer bike ride all worth it to be able to down that huge ice cream without much guilt. We topped the night off by watching the Bourne Supremacy. We stoked the fire up and hit the hay. We got a little carried away, it was hotter than noon day in that cabin. Finally after hours of burning up I opened the door and windows. I checked the thermometer at about 3 AM and it read just over 100! Guess we sweat that ice cream off too.
Breakfast was a couple oatmeal packets and then we were off again, we rode our bikes up to the ski hill and then down. We thought it would be pretty easy to bike back up to the cabin, it wasn't. Mason was pretty excited about finding some geodes so we headed out by the fish hatchery and hiked around a bit trying to remember where they were. It was fun to listen to conference as we hiked around on the mountain, we also saw a big bull moose. We still didn't feel like we were in the right spot for hunting geodes. Finally we broke down and called Dad for tips, he pointed us right to the spot. We hunted there for a bit but it was pretty picked over, so we headed to Elk Creek for some treats like old times.
I told Mason we could go home via Kilgore for something new. We headed out that way and when we crossed the Clark county line and saw the trail to Blair lake we had to take a detour. It was great, very pretty up there the fall colors were amazing. I talked Mason into following me down the trail so i could ride my bike again. Didn't take much, he was pretty excited at the chance to drive in the mountains.
You would think we had done enough already but as we passed the Civil Defense Caves we had to stop and do some more exploring. What a great time we both had, We scouted out some new places we want to go check out on our next getaway, can't wait to go again.
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 Mason getting his last thrill of driving |
 Civil defense caves, forgot to take pics inside |
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 Big ice cream cones |
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 There are two deer in this picture |
 Henry’s lake |
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 Bull Moose |
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 Found the spot for geodes |
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 Continental Divide |
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 some seriuos scrambling |
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 Top of Sawtell since we ran out of light |
 Good beans |
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 Beginning the bike ride |
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