Cedar Ridge Preserve

Last week, Scott, Austin and I headed over to Cedar Ridge Preserve to do some hiking.  I've always loved it there and last year when we took Austin, he did too!  So we loaded up our sandwiches and such (plenty of water, too!) and on we went.  My favorite trail is the Cedar Brake trail, but last year part of it was rained out so it was closed off.  This year, however, it's back to being open, but it's different.  Better and a tad harder.  The trail is classified as "Moderate/Difficult" and it definately lives up to it!  We loved it!  It's roughly 2 miles itself and you need to walk on another trail to get to it, but all in all it's about 3 miles. 

Austin walked all but the last 15 minutes and we couldn't have been more proud!  He even did all the tough 'climbs'.  Here are some pictures of the day.

Getting ready to go hiking - notice the binoculars!

At the beginning of the trail.  Stick in hand, ready to go!

The Cedar Brake Trail was full of elevations like this!  We LOVED it! 

Photo op 

We even came across a snake.  Sorry it's blurry - not sure what happened.  Although at first this snake was sprawled out in the middle of the trail.  Scott got it to slither away to the edge behind a tree.  There it turned around and hissed at us! 

Yea, well - you know funny picture moments are everywhere!

We can't wait to go again!