Morphy Lake Camping and a hike to Enchanted Lake

Ever since we first moved to New Mexico, Stan has dreamed of hiking to Enchanted Lake. It was a little too far for us to hike the same day we drove up, so we planned a camping trip to Morphy Lake, a state park type spot. We got there on Thursday evening, Stan took a couple hours off work so that we could there in time to make dinner.

Setting up camp

Scott got right down to business by finding good sticks and rocks

Stan tried a little fishing that evening. They weren't having much for what he was offering though

Scott wanted in on the fishing too :)

We went on a drive to check out a possible hiking trailhead

The meadows were beautiful

Scott LOVED the fire, we had to make sure he didn't jump into it again this camp trip. 

We hit the hay fairly early so that we could get up nice and early for our adventure the next day.

It was a beautiful day and Scott was pretty happy.

The forest was so beautiful everywhere we went!

We crossed a couple of streams, they were so beautiful

Stan, right after we crossed the above stream. We were so alone the whole day, it was so serene.

We were almost at the top on this picture. You could see quite a long ways out and it was stunning! We had just walked across some crazy huge boulders.

We finally reached the lake and Stan set off to see if he could find some fish. Scott and I hung out and ate food. Scott was pretty funny with the beef jerky. He would suck and suck on it and then give it back to me.

All of Stan's gear spread out as he set up.

Enchanted Lake: We had dreamed and dreamed of getting to this lake. It was very pretty, but sadly no fish :(

The sky and clouds were perfect all day long

He was just so happy to not be in the carrier anymore

We started to head back down the mountain, this is just below the lake. It was SOOOOOO steep. I was standing just five feet up the trail from Stan and this is how much lower on the mountain he is. I huffed and puffed all up this trail.

As we hiked back, it started to rain pretty hard. We hid under a tree for a little bit, Scott was snoozing on Stan :)

Stan on our way back

In the end, it took us 12 hours, and was 12 miles. Scott fell asleep on the way home and he was so tired he didn't even hardly rouse when I put him in the tent. When we went to join him, he had quite the crazy hair-do:

Saturday morning we took our time and slowly packed up.

Scott and Stan played in the tent. Stan would make the mattress bounce and Scott would laugh and laugh each time.

Scott played in the driver seat while we cleaned up. He loves "driving".

We headed up home and stopped for lunch on the way. It was a super fun trip!