And here's the proof. This is at the top of Angel's Landing. That's right! We hiked the entire thing, with our kids! Now to some, this may not be the greatest of accomplishments, but you have to consider that I am afraid of heights and have chickened out of the end of hikes before. This is the scariest hike I have ever been on, and I went all the way to the top instead of waiting for Cameron on the less scary part of the trail!
This is at the very beginning of the hike. That big cliff in the center left of the photo is Angel's Landing.
This is called the wiggles. It's a little difficult to tell from this photo, but we are at the very bottom and there are a series of switchbacks leading up this little hill. If you look closely, you can see some people further up the wiggles. Just before this was refrigerator canyon. Cameron told Eli that we were in the refrigerator and that a big monster was going to come and open it and then pull us out to eat. The entire way through the canyon Eli was asking where the monsters were.
Eli saw some kids playing in a little "cave" so when he saw this one he wanted to get in.
This was at the end of the non-scary part of the trail. Just after this, Eli was put in the backpack on Cameron's back.
All of us at the top.
Posing at the top.
Eli is turning into quite the motivational speaker. Once we got to the scary part of the trail he kept saying, "Mommy, you can handle this." And, "This is the easy part mommy! You can do it!" I couldn't have done it without him.
This is the kind of view we had from the top.
But, don't think I have entirely overcome my fear. I slid down the scary half mile on my bum. I'm sure the hundreds of other people on the trail were getting very tired of waiting for me to go down.
