the "man"cation

 Last week Wes and Bill ventured out on what is now their annual hiking trek, or what I like to call their "man"cation.  Last year they did a 3 day hike on the Lost Coast.  This year they upped the ante and decided to do a 50 miler in Kings Canyon National Park (Raes Lake Loop).  This hike is supposed to take about 5 days since the first 2 days are completely uphill and they rise in elevation  to at least 12,000 feet, maybe more (I'm not exactly sure what the elevation was at their starting point, so I don't know how much elevation they gained).  As I said, it's supposed to take 5 days to do this hike.  These rascals did it in 2 1/2 days.  I wasn't expecting them home until Friday.  On Wednesday at 1am I got a call that they had finished early and would be home by 4am.  I was so excited I couldn't go back to sleep until he was home!

 They spotted a baby while eating breakfast one morning.

 Flowers at 12,000ft. 

His hiking buddy, Bill.