We Didn't Expect a Ride at the End of This Hike

The water is really beautiful. Bye Ross Lake. Hey everyone, so we made it to the Pacific Northwest and we're at Diablo Lake in North Cascades National Park. We're going to hike Diablo Lake Trail. It's about a seven to eight mile hike and let's get into it. How many mothers do you think say that? Not all mothers, or all mothers I guess. No mothers I guess. So it reminds me of the base of Inspiration Point, Grand Teton. We took the ferry across Jenny Lake. Right, yep, in our Yellowstone video, or Grand Teton video, the boys climbed up something a lot like this. We were all kind of marveling at how similar some of these landscapes look. Take a break and Diablo Lake is on the other side of all those trees. What's that? That one is Billy. Oh. I wonder if he can do it. Sam, here's Billy that I found with all my hat. All right, Sam. Sam found the best view in the house. Oh, thanks. I'll see that next view. All right, here's the overlook right before we get to the river. There's the dam. All right, boys, ready to go? Yep. Got two more switchbacks to get to the bottom. I know. And we drove across that dam to get here. That's pretty cool. All right, we made it, guys. Skagit River, what this is called. Now, this is really cool. Diablo Dam that way, we saw it. What if you're 31 like this? We got to look up the, what's the word for fear of bridges, I wonder. You know darn well Margo would not go for this. Oh, my gosh. Especially because you can see down. Oh, my gosh. The cracks and stuff. You can feel the bridge buckling under us right now, kind of bouncing up and down. The water is really beautiful. Looks like they've got some boats over there. Well, we were determined to make our way all the way down to one of these lakes or rivers, and we did it. The perfect snack spot. What do you think? I might put my feet in that in a minute. Yeah, put my feet in there. We'll go right there. Well, probably not because that water's got a current. Yeah, it's a river, Skagit River. All right, so we're on our way back from Skagit River. After taking the Diablo Lake Trail all the way down to it. It's about a four and a half, no, about four mile trek down to the river, and then obviously four miles back. Because you're going down a river, you've got to go all the way downhill. So it's gonna be all the way uphill on the way back. So not looking forward to that. The trail is a little bit of a slog, meaning there's not too many fantastic views that we're used to, but when you do come across them, they're pretty incredible. And then lastly, there's this cool bridge right here that just kind of travels over Skagit River. And you can see the river right here. And then we also came across a sign over here that said that there's a ferry that comes through and picks you up. So we're gonna go down there and check it out and see. Look, see? Diablo Ferry. We were like, oh, let me see that. There's no schedule posted. So we're gonna see what we can find out. All right, here we go. Ross Lake. Hi, Ross Lake. We finished our hike. It was an awesome hike. See right there? No, this is like eight feet. Get the fly. You need to put the fly in there. No, it would just fly out. Oh, look at the spider. You see the spider? No. Where? Should we find the spider? You ready to get going? Look at the spider. Oh, yeah.