Browne's Lake and Clark's Lookout

While my parents and Hanna were here, we went to some really cool places. Saturday evening we drove to a place called Browne's Lake so my dad and Dave could do some more fishing. It was so beautiful there, even if it rained on us a little bit.

Jed in his awesome hat riding up. He kept pulling it down over his eyes.

Getting ready. While the boys fished, Hanna and my mom and Jed and I took a hike up the mountain. It was so beautiful!

Browne's Lake

Hanna, Jed and I on the bridge across the creek

Beautiful clematis blooms on our hike

Mom and Jed on the way back down

The most fun thing about our hike was an old dump that we happened upon. We're not sure if it was an old mining camp or a logging camp, but whatever it was, there was the coolest trash! We found old shoes, coffee cans, Spam cans, broken dishes and bottles, bedsprings...all sorts of rusty and broken stuff a person can't live without in the mountains. It was amazing!

Sunday evening we drove to Clark's Lookout, a little knob of rock not too far from our house. William Clark scrambled up there the summer of 1805 and recorded three different compass readings he took. The state has turned it into a small state park and put a beautiful monument on top. You can clamber around on the rocks to your heart's content. So we did!

The monument was designed to look like the face of Clark's compass, and the readings he took are carved into it. My favorite thing about it is that the readings are spelled like Clark spelled them.

Jed feeling the smooth granite beneath his feet

Mom and Hanna on top of the lookout

My dad was checking out the fishing

Jed getting started on rock climbing early in life

A picture of our little family

Jed and Grandpa Monte in the parking lot