This Saturday Brooke got to go to a cookout at Jen's cousins house. He's leaving for Iraq soon and before he leaves he had a huge cookout for the whole family. Lots of great food and lots of new faces for Brooke. She finally got to meet the relatives from her Grammy C's side of the family. You can click the picture or there's more pictures of that here.
Sunday Ryan, Travis and I climbed to the top of Vermont. Mt. Mansfield is the highest mountain in the state at 4393 feet high. Middle of the road by White Mountain standards, but it rises well above treeline. It is also home to Stowe ski resort, an auto road, a TV station and lots of antenna's. Despite all this the trail we took the Long Trail out of smugglers notch and it was pretty rough and well isolated from the development until the top. We climbed up the "Chin" and walked over to the "Nose" and then down. Apparently the mountain looked like a face lying down to someone a long time ago so the summits are named for the forehead, nose, chin and adam's apple. Travis finally took me up on my offer to come hiking with me for the first time. I hope he had a good time and joins me again. For Ryan and I it was another of the New England 4000 footers, our next goal since the White Mountain ones are done. Click the pic or here for a lot of photo's. There's about 120 here so you might want to grab some popcorn for this one. When you finish with that there's a panoramic summit view video and another short hiking clip from the ridge below. 
And while we were hiking Brooke was keeping cool at her grandparents house with her cousins. There's a few more pictures from that here.
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