Well we were off for the winter furlough. This started with a trip to Arizona to see Aunt Kris and my friend Steve. Then we flew to Washington to see my mom and Carl. Our plan was to leave Conrad with Mom and then fly to Hawaii to meet my Dad and Laura, Uncle Paul, and Grandpa Tom. Before we did that, we had a few days in Washington, so we spent some time visiting with people like my Grandma who had not met Conrad yet. While we had some down time, Jacqueline and I went for a hike out in Pack Forest. Carl had a good map, so we ventured to some trails that we had not hiked previously. When we got to the trailhead we were a little worried about some people in a big van. The weather was extremely cold and they were obviously stealing firewood from the facilities around Pack Forest.
We made sure to lock our car and Jacqueline even went back to make sure her purse and phone was with us so that they didn't feel the need to break into our car. After that it was down a flat road until we hit another road. This took us to what was called the Wildlife Trail. This took us through some nice forest with decent trails. The weather was so cold that the trails were in pretty good shape because the mud that could obviously be there was completely frozen. Our feet were a little cold but sooner than later the trail put us moving uphill.
Jacqueline was a little bit worried about our direction of travel. I had a map, though, so I assured her this was the correct direction. The trail went all the way around the sides of Hugo Peak. At some point the trail switched names to the Reservoir Trail. We could tell we were getting close to one of the many roads when we started seeing signs about being a managed forest and telling about the trees. We did hit a road and then took the Advanced Horse Trail back to the car. It was fun being on a hike with just the two of us as it had been a long time since we could do that. It only took a few hours, but in the afternoon in Washington during December, that is all the daylight that we had. The people at the trailhead were gone and the car was left alone. Time to leave the cold for the warm weather of Kauai.
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