My family decided to take advantage of the day off from work due to Labor Day and headed to Palm Springs, where we took the tram to the top of Mt San Jacinto for a hike.
In all seriousness my dad spent 30 minutes the night before getting stuff down from the garage attic in preparation for this 'day hike' and his day pack must have weighed at least 25 pounds. But fret not, he had every essential imaginable and was prepared, or so he thought.
When he got out of the truck in the parking lot at the base of the tram he remembers his boots feeling weird and then once we got to the the building he realized that the bottoms of his boots had come undone. The rubber soles had disintegrated and the years of neglect of sitting in the attic had been too much for the rubber. So we laughed and laughed all the way back into downtown Palm Springs where we found a Big 5 for him to buy new shoes at. Then we were back to the tram and up the mountain.
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| Kyle & Cheryl about to begin the 5 mile Round Valley Loop |
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| Kyle & Cheryl under a large boulder |
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| My brother Brian, the Zen Master |
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| It started to rain at our halfway point and my mom quickly took one of the many ponchos that my dad had packed. |
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| Kyle, Cheryl, Brian, Joan & Mark by one of the old trams. |
