THE FAMOUS WOODRUFF BIRTHDAY OUTING

Yes, as is tradition, every Woodruff birthday must be celebrated by law with a Grand Birthday outing. These have varied from outings such as The Science Museum in London when I was small to seeing Les Miserables with Hannah for my 25th. So this weekend we started the day early to say hi to the families, opening a couple of presents before heading off to the hills for a large trek at the bottom of Sequoia National Park to climb up Sunday Peak Mountain (8300ft)

"The UN Environmental Programme's definition of "mountainous environment" includes any of the following:^[11]

• Elevation of at least 2,500 m (8,200 ft);
• Elevation of at least 1,500 m (4,900 ft), with a slope greater than 2 degrees;
• Elevation of at least 1,000 m (3,300 ft), with a slope greater than 5 degrees;
• Elevation of at least 300 m (980 ft), with a 300 m (980 ft) elevation range within 7 km (4.3 mi)."

The start of the walk was from a unmarked car-park 6 miles along a dirt track in the forest, it made for a quite an adventure and a test of my off road skills. The rabbit always seems to find the crazy roads!

After measuring 8 miles on the trip counter we gave up looking for the car-park and decided to just walk along the dirt track only to discover the car-park was round next corner only 200 metres up the road. So we managed to find the trail and set off up the mountain. After successfully climbing the mountain we headed to Greenhorn Grill in a nearby village situated in the forest for a late lunch. I had pork belly burger which was incredible and Hannah had a tasty pulled beef roll, Yum! We then drove home watching the temperatures climb from the warm 71F to the boiling 107F in our valley so we jumped in the pool to cool off.

Here are a few pictures of the day. Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it was a great day even though Hannah kept reminding me I'm 30 next!!