This spring and summer we are going to do a lot of hiking for vacation. So a couple weeks ago I decided it's time to get these kids some new hiking boots and toughen these kids up. I took them up to Camp Verde for some hiking at a spot known as my "pee spot", since I have to stop at this exit a lot going in and out of the valley. From the top of the hill there we could see all of Camp Verde and all the way out to Sedona.
My plans didn't go quite as expected. I've hiked this hill once hauling my hunting gear and my 30 06 while looking for coyotes but it had been a long time. There is no real trail, it's all scrambling up the hill. I was a day short of my 6 weeks of no lifting from surgery so I carried Dean up the hill. He was fine walking until we got to the uphill and then I guess he just got scared and decided he is going to be carried.
When we got up the hill the plan was to have a little picnic. Well that plan didn't quite work out. We were still in a bad drought two weeks ago and the minute we opened up the lunch box the bees all started swarming trying to get our food and water. We had to keep moving around while eating and weren't able to just sit and enjoy the view. After eating we immediately had to go down the mountain.
The kids were doing a lot of complaining on the way down the hill because they thought it was scary. Natalie seems to think that means the hike was a bad idea. I think it just means the kids need to do this stuff more and toughen up. When I was 6 years old I was hiking with my dad at my grandpa's property in Corona and I would get poison oak. It didn't stop me from going every time my dad went up there. I knew I was going to get poison oak, I knew it was going to suck, but I loved hiking Hagador Canyon. My kids like to hike but they are just a little soft and get scared easy. I have a feeling by mid summer things will be different.
At the top of the hill trying to eat our lunch while the bees swarm.
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