Christmas Hikin'

We took a drive up to Mills River Rec area yesterday. We drove on the FS road, up and over Yellow Gap, down to Slatey Creek trail. Jubal has not taken a nap in the past two days and I guess the windy, bumpy dirt road was enough to lull him to sleep.



We got to the trail and started hiking. The skies were gray and fluffy, although there was not precipitation in the forecast. 15 minutes later, it started sleeting. Jubal excitedly picked up the drops of sleet. The drops promptly melted. He wondered why? Very cool.



Needless to say, we didn't get snowed in and stranded. And we didn't have to live for days off of trash that we had in our car's trash bag. In fact, we made it out and home for some homemade tacos.



This morning we woke up to scattered slushy snow on the ground!!



Have a great day.

One of the Rhododendron tunnels on the trail

Water Falls on Slatey Creek

Jubal took the next two. This one is a rock with bear scat near the top.

This is the trail with a root and some leaves.