Quandary Peak
Quandary Peak, 14,265 feet
On June 16, eighteen of us set off on an adventure up one of Colorado’s 14ers! (14,000 foot mountains) One couple went with a baby in a backpack – but aside from them the other fifteen of us made it to the summit. That included the entire Gardner family!
This was our 4th Family 14er, and the first of 2007. It reminded me (again) of two things – first, how difficult it is to motivate a 7 and 8 year old up a mountain, and second, how rewarding it is to accomplish such a challenge as a family! The truth be told, the kids both did immensely better than the hikes last year. We struggled a bit near the summit, but the trip down was filled with word games, laughs and a lot of motivation to get down. (The thunder kept getting closer and louder!)
Of the group, three were new friends who wanted to hike a 14er, three were family friends (with an 11 year old son), two were married students with the baby, and the other four were college students. And the Gardner four makes 18.
The trip provided for some amazing lessons in “perseverance,” which made an entire lesson for Sunday school possible the next day. The idea behind perseverance being that there is some sort of reward in store (the summit of a 14er), and that perseverance is working something good in us (character!) even as we struggle through the difficulties of the situation. We kept reminding our kids how that with every step – they were literally becoming stronger! And so we persevere in our spiritual journeys, knowing that in the process, we are being transformed more and more into the image of Christ.
Pictures at http://wadedara.spaces.live.com/
On June 16, eighteen of us set off on an adventure up one of Colorado’s 14ers! (14,000 foot mountains) One couple went with a baby in a backpack – but aside from them the other fifteen of us made it to the summit. That included the entire Gardner family!
This was our 4th Family 14er, and the first of 2007. It reminded me (again) of two things – first, how difficult it is to motivate a 7 and 8 year old up a mountain, and second, how rewarding it is to accomplish such a challenge as a family! The truth be told, the kids both did immensely better than the hikes last year. We struggled a bit near the summit, but the trip down was filled with word games, laughs and a lot of motivation to get down. (The thunder kept getting closer and louder!)
Of the group, three were new friends who wanted to hike a 14er, three were family friends (with an 11 year old son), two were married students with the baby, and the other four were college students. And the Gardner four makes 18.
The trip provided for some amazing lessons in “perseverance,” which made an entire lesson for Sunday school possible the next day. The idea behind perseverance being that there is some sort of reward in store (the summit of a 14er), and that perseverance is working something good in us (character!) even as we struggle through the difficulties of the situation. We kept reminding our kids how that with every step – they were literally becoming stronger! And so we persevere in our spiritual journeys, knowing that in the process, we are being transformed more and more into the image of Christ.
Pictures at http://wadedara.spaces.live.com/
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