These boots were made for hiking

When I aworke Saturday morning to the bright sunlight, I was quickly greeted by curious marmots.

These funny alpine rodents were watching me pretty closely until Zoe emerged from Mike's tent, and then they scampered off before she even saw them.

After breakfast, we decided to check out some of our surroundings with a day hike. Being there was still a lot of snow around and therefore there were also numerous small streams, we often found ourselves off trail and just trying to find our way. Eventually we made it above the waterfall that fed Twin Lakes, and then above that to a great overlook.

We hiked another 6-8 miles Saturday, and when got back to our camp we could see Zoe was feeling some pain. We could see her muscles were a bit sore, but also her feet and toe nails were getting pretty beat up from all of the granite that we were hiking on.

Luckily Mike brought along some boots for Zoe for just this problem, and while a bit reluctant, she wore them all the way down the mountain on our hike back to the car on Sunday.