Week 4 of my 52 Week Challenge

Week 4 of my 52 Week Challenge

This week I was able to make it out to both our Hike it Baby Tuesday hike and to a park for Free Forest School. But I'm telling you, if I had not put a hike on the Hike it Baby calendar, there is no way we would have gone out on Tuesday.

Hike #4
Date: Tuesday January 23, 2018
Place: Mt. Tabor
Route: Loop - Green/Blue trails, with a stop at the top
Distance: 2.3 miles

It was wet and miserable out and Lake sure didn't want to. He even tried holding on to the car seat to prevent me from getting him out of the car once we arrive at the trailhead. I told him that if no one was there for the hike, we would go back home...two other moms showed up with their kids, so off on a hike we went. Once we got moving Lake started to enjoying himself.

About half way through, when we were almost to the top of the hill, he starting getting fussy, but managed to make it to the play ground and had a miraculous recovery and didn't want to leave. At the crest of the park is a bronze statue of Harvey W. Scott, editor of The Oregonian newspaper from 1865-1872 and from 1877 until his death in 1910. Of course I had to spend a few minutes doing research to see if we were related...I do have a Harvey Scott in my family tree, but not this one.

This was also the last week of Hike it Baby 30 Challenge. The challenge is to get you and your children outside for 30 miles in 30 days or 30 minutes three times a week. There is only one more day left in the challenge, and we are going out tomorrow to add a few more miles to our total. So far we have 18.98 miles, so #atleastwetried on the miles. But we totally crushed the outdoor time with 1245 minutes tracked so far.
                          

                            

Park #4
Date: Friday January 26, 2018
Place: Powell Butte Nature Park
Event: Free Forest School
Distance: one-ish miles

Although we have been hiking at Powell Butte before, I am super interested in participating in the Free Forest School that has just started meeting at Powell Butte on Friday mornings. Part of the idea is that the same group of people meet every week at the same park so the kids can see and get to know one another and notice the change in nature over the year. The school is kid lead, is intended to give them confidence in themselves and in nature. I believe that Lake will thrive in this environment.

It was windy and cold last Friday but about a dozen families braved the weather and joined us at the trailhead. After introductions, the kids took the lead and headed up the trail. We didn't get very far that day but did find a nice protected place to have a snack and a story behind a couple Douglas Firs.  Lake and I were one of the last two families at the end...he was having fun.