Hike #2 "My Face is Salty"

Oh the optimism that we had when we started out on this trail :). We were with a local women's hiking group on a Tuesday morning, it was moderately raining, and we were going to hike a four mile round trip out to a cabin for lunch and back. There were four adults, four kids walking and three others being carried. This is Kowee Meadows Trail in Bridget Point State Park.

Nice clean feet...

And the rains came tumbling down....

On the way out we noticed the meadow appeared to be flooded so we opted for the longer way through the woods. Turns out, the woods were just as wet and harboring hidden patches of mud as much as two feet deep. The kids who were walking were champs as they sunk in to their knees multiple times and had to pulled out barefoot and then their boots dug out from the quicksand like mud. (Notice they're still smiling though)

Finally we arrived at our destination, but it took us two hours to get out there, and Liz had to get back in to work. We ate a quick lunch, left the group and decided to be adventurous and take the quick way through the flooded meadow to get back.

It makes me laugh even now.

Despite the rainy weather, the view was a different kind of beautiful. The clouds were so low it seems the trees could almost touch them and the eagles, since they weren't in the air dotted the trees all around.

 The meadows weren't so bad at first and then it got deeper and deeper until. I have to give Liz props for carrying Sydney all the way. And Sydney props for being so cheerful despite the fact that her legs were soaked. She and Liz sang songs practically the whole way. I had it lucky since I just tossed my rainproof carseat cover over Wynn in the carrier and he slept to the sound of the rain and singing most of the way.


I managed to stay on my feet and only get stuck in the mud once until the last fifteen minutes when I slipped and landed on my right side, waking Wynn up :(. He was still a happy camper though once we were back on our feet.

We accomplished the way back in 55 min! 

There were about 4 or 5 inches of water in my boots and we were SO tired from trekking through the deep mud and water it was like trying to run with your feet buried in the sand. 

This is kind of embarrassing, but it show how wet and exhausted we were!

And as a final reward... we got to wait for 35 more min to get dry and showered for the pilot car when we were done since they are improving the end of the road in Juneau. 

It may not look like it, but I think it was our funnest hike all summer and definitely the most memorable.