Saturday, we headed to cooler weather in the mountains for Amaroq's fourth birthday. Parts of the parkway are still closed, so we had to drive to Boone and take the alternate route to Moses Cone Memorial Park, where the carriage roads are stroller friendly. Parking along Shulls Mill Road, we took the spur up to Rich Mountain Road in an open field.
Following the road up Rich Mountain, we passed the Mountains-to-Sea Trail as the road circled around the summit.
As it looped around, there was another open area where we could see the top despite the clouds.
The circles became tighter as we approached the summit.
A short rocky path led up to another open area at the top, where Amaroq had a snack and Harper ran around for a bit.
After a break, we started heading down. There were some Indian pipe along the trail.
Harper was very interested in some of the cows we saw grazing along the trail, but threw a temper-tantrum when we didn't let her pet them. We spotted some more summer wildflowers along the trail on the hike down towards Trout Lake.
Yellow false fox-glove had really pretty flowers.
Near Trout Lake, the arrowwood was producing bright red berries.
We continued around Trout Lake and headed to the Manor House before finishing our hike.
On the way home, we stopped at Booneshine for a late lunch.
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