Summer Adventures Recap Part VIII: Mora Flats

The day after Amy left, July 19th, we headed up to the Santa Fe National Forest to try and get some good fishing. It was a successful day!

The drive up to our trailhead took a good couple hours, but Scott slept and we had a good visit. It was a beautiful day for a hike. The forest was soooooo green and had great undergrowth. It was a three mile hike in. We did see a few people on the trail so we were able to get a family picture at the trailhead:

This hike was a little different because we kind of started out at the top of the mountain and were hiking down in a valley where the river was. The views from the rim were beautiful. There was a fire in this forest last year and you can see the damage that did in some of the pictures.

This forest had so many different types of vegetation. As seen above, there were pines, and then there were these aspens. We LOVE aspens. And LOVE hiking with this man.

Gotta get my classic picture

Change of vegetation, deciduous trees and crazy undergrowth. It was SO humid here.

View of where we are headed. That flat spot down there is called Mora Flats.

We saw many beautiful flowers the whole day:

And a few wild animals:

We got down to the river and Stan was able to get across, but there wasn't a good place for Scott and I to cross :( So we settled down and Stan got all ready to go fishing!

Stan caught a few fish but was only able to get a picture of one.

And while he was off doing that, Scott and I were hanging out, taking LOTS of pictures. I'll spare you the majority of them, but here are a few:

He was pretty happy most the day.

The view from our resting spot.

I gave him the water bottle to play with and he attacked it.

Love this boy!

He was discovering his feet this week.

It was a wonderfully fun day!