First family backpacking trip in Alaska! We spent the night with 3 other families on the Eagle River Nature Center trail.

Getting ready

Starting out

Before we put her in the kiddo-carrier backpack

Out of the pack to climb on rocks before we got to the campsite

Throwing rocks for sprig in Eagle River. Saw mountain goats and dall sheep on the upper slopes (on the mountains behind Erik not in this picture).

Playing in the campsite

S'mores

Ukelele

tent

Breakfast

Hill beside campsite

Attacking bryophytes and lichens

Break on the way out. Kiddos on a log

The big hollowed-out cottonwood

Back home, putting Pippi in the pack

Bear sits on the potty

Trail cam

 Got her boots on by herself, striking out

Hopeful

Looking at ants

Wardrobe change after school, swinging, and yawping?

Contemplation with beads

Play house at Ava's school

Rosemary and Sprig participated in the Friday bog walk at Ava's school with the kindergarteners

Riding lessons going well, beginning to trot

Putting boots on and off by herself...and putting feet on table....are new things

Quite a look from Ava

Watch me jump on this ledge. Rosemary is a fan of toddler Parkour

Drawing with the chalk....

 ....and eating the chalk

Sand it a hit, in our back yard and at Ava's school

Also a fan of pulling all her stuff out of her drawers

Trail cam picks up wildlife in the yard

Symbiosis

Eagle River Nature Center with Wilder's family

Heracleum inflorescence scepter, hands on hips. Guess what Ava is playing?

Rosemary's inflorescence turned into a bludgeoning device

  Maggie took the best pictures of the day

Throwing rocks