Happy Halloween

Tyler carved a scary Jack-O-Lantern, while I carved a scared pumpkin. I'm not very good with scary things, mainly because I get scared easily, so I thought an afraid squash was a better fit for me.

Chain Lakes

We hiked the Chain Lakes trail out by Mount Baker on Monday with Eric, CJ, Rhino and Bix (Eric's dog). The sun was out, and so it was a gorgeous, dry day. Blueberry bushes were all along the trail, so Tyler and I filled 3/4 of a Nalgene with blueberries (he made jam today, but I haven't tried it yet).

As you can see at the end of that slideshow, the boys decided to jump in the lake. It wasn't cold outside — but it was warm either — so we all thought Eric and Tyler were crazy for going forward with their plan. Here's a video of their plunges:



After that, Eric decided to jump in again. When he was out of the water for the second and final time, he said that it wasn't any better than the first time.

"I could cut a diamond with my nipples," he said.

We all then hiked back to cars, and drove straight to the North Fork Brewery for some pizza and beer. The brewery is staple end-of-the-hike stop out the Mt Baker Highway. Tyler and I stayed for the first quarter of the Bronco's game, and then had to hightail it back to town to watch the rest of the game at Coconut Kenny's. After the game, Tyler's phone wouldn't stop ringing because everyone was calling to talk about the Bronco's victory.

6-0...who would've thought?

Sailing in October

We encountered a lot of wind when we went sailing on Tuesday. All of us got sprayed from the water, but Steve managed to take shelter for a few minutes.

Fall hike