Trying to get out of town on RV Trip

 What a start. Thursday, June 24th, we decide to leave early on our trip - we were renting out our house while we were gone, already had it clean, so we might as well go! About an hour or so into the trip south down Highway 1, the RV started chugging if we went over 40 mph. So we turned around and came back, camping illegally at a trailhead so as not to mess up the house again and planning to have it fixed if possible on Friday. Friday came and no solution yet as they couldn't find the right water pump - and our renters let us know that their plane was canceled so they weren't coming in til Saturday. So we came home carefully for Friday night, eating takeout on the deck, changing bed coverings, etc. and trying to have Kira shed as little as possible! A friend of ours watched her the next morning, and by 6. pm we were ready to leave again. 

Moose on the road into South Fork Eagle River Trail 

But . . . on Friday since we had all day and didn't want to be in the house, we started our vacation by doing a 10 mile, 5 hour hike on the South Fork Eagle River trail to Symphony Lake. We'd done this hike about an hour or so out before to the bridge or even beyond up towards the "Hanging Valley" but had never gone in the direction of the lake. Lots of hikers out that day, and a gorgeous trail - and a moose sighting on the road on the way up!

 

This is one of my favorite hikes -  a standby that's relatively flat, not as much elevation gain, but beautiful views surrounding us as the. trail cuts through the valley. And it. is where we can cut up too, if we choose, much more steeply, to do the ridge hike I mentioned in our last entry over to Rendezvous - views the whole way!