The Shepherd's: 2011

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Yosemite And Sequoia Vacation

Here we are at the Sequoia National Forest, the trees are bigger than life and they look beautiful in the sunlight. Their bark is reddish and just glows.

Way at the bottom are Clara and I..

This is Half dome... it is huge, we planned to hike up it 8900 ft elevation and 16 mile round trip...

This is part way up, after traversing very misty waterfalls and climbing hundreds of granite steps.

This is us at the SUMMIT! Ryan, Katie, Jeff, Liz and Lauren Woohoooo!

Half dome is behind us in the cloud above Katie's head. Yes in a cloud!

Next to the sign we are at the bottom. We climbed half dome with the cables down, meaning we had to hold up the cables in our hands and we harnessed up and used a prussix to keep us from falling should we slip off the 45 degree granite incline. The cables weren't up yet because there was still snow on the subdome, and we had to at times walk up the snow because the last of the granite steps were covered in snow.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Up to

Here's What we've been up to... gardening and camping!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Our New Swingset!

We designed and built this ourselves. A commercial grade swingset for our very own backyard. It was too expensive to order one from a company, so Ryan engineered one using electrical pipe of all things.

We love it!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Ryan and Kate's Trip to Moab

Mountain Biking Klondike Bluffs. We saw some great dinosaur tracks in the sandstone.

A great repel just outside of the practice loop area.

Here is the view at the top of Klondike Bluffs. We didn't have anyone to take our photo so the view is hidden at the bottom of the photo.

Delicate Arch. This hike was fun. You walk up some steep slick rock and through part of a little canyon and you can't see the arch until the very end of the hike. So worth it!

We did the practice loop and I think those boy scouts who do this every year are very brave. Lots of fun. Thanks Mom for watching the girls so we could go!