The Great Outdoors!

As you all know, living in the desert does not really allow for much outdoor adventure (at least our favorite kinds: hiking, camping, and fishing), especially in the summer when it's 110 degrees out... so you can imagine our excitement when we discovered Mammoth! Just a few short hours away in the eastern Sierra Nevada's, we have found a haven for camping, hiking, fishing, skiing (now, if we just hadn't garage-saled all our ski stuff.... ), eating yummy food, bike riding, walking, exploring, basically, you name it... Soooo, I thought I would share some of our pictures of one of our most favorite places in Cali!

Here we are with some of our good friends at Minaret Lake, 7.5 miles one-way (we had yet to go down at this point and are all still looking quite cheery. I honestly thought my feet were going to fall off on our return trip -- or my legs. It was brutal. BUT, absolutely gorgeous).

Here we are over 4th of July with our good friends Brian and Andrea getting ready for fireworks over one of the lakes .... Here are some more of us hiking (don't we look like a pair with his hat and my bandanna around my neck, haha):

Curt finally gets to go fishing... he is PUMPED!

There's always swimming as well, but this is quite chilly:

Last but not least, enjoying the warmth of the campfire on a cool mountain air night...

AHHhhhhh, Mammoth. :)