Family Hike

We had a map, but I forgot to turn on the tracking for this early summer hike in June.  Tanks to Mass DER, I was able to copy of portion of the Wachusett Mountain Reservation hiking trail map to show you where we went.

We park our car at Administration Road at the mountain's south side and set our sights on the Echo Lake and High Meadow Trails.  Hopefully, it won't be too strenuous on anyone. 

From High Meadow, we head down via the Jack Frost Trail.  As you can see by the contour lines it was a little steeper than I remember, but also sill a long ways from the summit.

Somebody doesn't need to take a nap and is raring to go!

When my kids were little, we did not have such fancy back packs.  They were held in by one flimsy little strap instead.

Yay!  First objective "Echo Lake" is met.

"Yes", we are definitely having fun yet.

So the High Meadow Trail is called that for a reason.  It was a bit of a climb to get up there.

Madeline thinks she's had enough of the backpack and would like to do a little walking too.