Stay on the path

Kami, Mark and I went hiking on Mark's birthday and learned a valuable lesson: stay on the path.

Here we are enjoying a nice view from the mountain:

We headed over to see a few different lookout spots. Things were still peachy at this point.

Here we are scooting down a big slope because our shoes have zero traction:

Now running down a more gradual slope:

Here is where things got a little sticky. We didn't want to walk all the way back the way we came because we had made a sort of circle and were close to where we started, just higher up. From our view, it didn't look so steep to just go straight down, but it turns out we were wrong.

Here is the slope we ended up sliding down. I was literally squatted down sliding on my feet and so was Mark, but Kami was sliding snowboard style and was doing great until she hit a rough patch and tumbled a few feet down. Luckily she was fine besides a few scrapes and bruises.

Lesson learned: the path is there for a reason.