Good karma is...

A sunny day off in Southeast!

So far, almost every day that I have completely off from work, it ends up being cloudy or rainy or something less than ideal.  But Sunday was the exception!  It was a glorious weather day.  Sunny, just little puffy clouds, and a high about 64.  Can't find a thing to complain about.

Ever since going out to the Fortress of the Bear that first time (it was raining), I've been wanting to go when it's sunny to see them play.  So that's what I did.  They were so cute.  They spent most of their time in the water and, with all that fur, I don't blame them.  It was really warm out.

Om noms on some salmon

Oh don't mind me, just playin' with my tire....

...and sitting on it

I must be missing something, tires are apparently very comfortable naptime spots.  Who knew?

We're cute and we know it!

After spending some time with the bears, my friend Cailen and I decided that we should go on a hike.  Neither of us had been up the Thimbleberry Creek trail yet so we decided on that one.  It had moderate elevation gain and is very well maintained, making it a perfect hike for an afternoon.  We saw a bunch of lupine just starting to bloom and salmonberry bushes transitioning from blooms to fruit.  Hopefully I'll beat the bears to some of the salmonberries once they are ripe!  The trail makes it's way past 2 small lakes (Thimbleberry and Heart) and continues one to become part of a much larger loop system, but we only went the 1.8 miles to Heart Lake.

Banana slug!!!!

Bear Mountain above Heart Lake

All in all, I'd say it was a great day off and I can only hope that I get lucky enough to have another day off be just as gorgeous! 

PS - if you want to view the pictures bigger than they show up in the posts, just click on the photo and it'll become a larger slideshow that you can scroll through!