A Birthday and Mt Baden Powell

So,
    Despite the previous weeks celebration we also celebrated Aidens birthday on his actual birthday. There were gifts and cake. He is happy to be 3 years old.

A 3 year old and a 4 year old.

anticipation building!!!!

Pile of presents

His very own LAWNMOWER!!!! YEAH!!!

And a Minion Mobile!!!

He was really excited about the cake. Picked it out himself.

Blew out all of his own candles.

Then didn't eat ANY of it. Turns out he doesn't like cake (now). We tried scraping off the frosting still no go. With Ice Cream? NOPE. so we gave him some M&M's. He was happy with that.

Aiden is a good little dude. He's very gentle and kind, smart and curious. We're happy to have him in our family.

Then on Saturday I set out to hike Mt Baden Powell. It's on the PCT and a good warm up for MT Baldy. I brought Buster along and he did great. I let him off leash on the way down and he was amazing, he was happy as could be. It was about 8 miles round trip and 3,800 ft of gain/ loss up to 9,400 ft. As usual people all along the way were warm and friendly. Met an 85 yr old guy at the summit who was cracking jokes and entertaining. Also met a guy going up Whitney this week (lottery spot thief).

Summit Marker, Buster, Shadow

Monument to Lord Baden Powell, Boy Scout Founder. Guy in Red shirt on left is 85 years old. Fer reals.

Crazy Crooked Tree at summit.

This tree is 1,500 yrs old and marks the PCT junction.

Mt Baldy, 10,049 ft and next.

Fun ridge walk back from summit.

Buster Leading the way down the hill.

Downtown LA is about 30 miles away and 8,000ft down. Also could see Mt Wilson the last one I  hiked.

Punchbowl is on the left (previous hike) and my house is in the top left green belt.

Buster is in the shade of the car. He crashed hard after the hike but for a 4 month old puppy he was great to have along.

Happy Hiker.

That's all for now.

RTSZAB