The Menan Butte
This one is another fun hike close to home. It has spectacular 360 degree views from the top.
Helam was thirsty......... 
Thats not water! 
It's Anelyse's lizzard.
Helam made sure to point out all the ants along the trail.
There were a lot of cool trees along the trail.
At the Top.
This is on the way back down. The trail is pretty steep and slippery at this point so the railing really helps. What a fun day. Best present I could get.... a fun memory with my family! What a great day!
After the hike, we ditched the kids with Grandma and Kellie and went in search of a geo-cache. Joshua ended up braking his last pair of flip flops, walking barefoot til we found the cache up the side of the mountain. Little did we know we were almost there on the nature trail with the kids, so this find was much harder than it needed to be and we ended up hiking half of the trail again coming back, but it has a much greater adventure this way. My mom and Kellie ended up leaving with the kids - we had no cell phone and were locked out of the Tahoe. I finally borrowed a phone from a stranger and could not get good enough reception to communicate the problem. My mom turned around guessing that she might have the keys in the stroller. What a day!
