Weekly Hikes in April

We were sheltering-in-place for the entire month of April, so most of our outside activities came to an abrupt halt.

However, we did take the boys on a few bike rides, including Isaac's first ride to the Brow. This is about a 2.5-mile, round-trip ride from our house to a beautiful view of the Chattanooga area from our mountain. This ride includes some big hills – which Isaac chose to walk – but he completed the ride and we are so proud of him!

In addition to biking, we walked down to Green Gorge one evening. The boys were concerned about it being closed (Jack is a major rule follower), but where we entered, there were no signs posted. It was so nice to take a quick walk next to our favorite little creek.

As far as being stuck on our property for a majority of the month, we still spent lots of time outside. Daniel taught the boys how to rappel on our rock face and Jack has become really adept at setting everything up.

The boys have also been working with Daniel to built a small treehouse out of materials we have on had. And we had several campfires during the month, which was nice.

The boys are staying committed to sleeping on our screened porch in their cushion fort. Twenty-eight nights on the porch as of this writing.

As of May 1st, our shelter-in-place orders have lifted. We are still practicing social distancing, but are optimistic that we will be able to do more hikes in the month of May.

A look back at monthly hikes for this year:
January
February
March