Everyday the trail throws a new challenge at you. On this particular sunny day we experienced our first rock climbing session. He is actually going down that rock face…backwards was definitely the safest way…we spent this day and the next walking along a ridge line going up and over boulders, it was hard to make any distance since the majority of time was spent tossing our poles downhill, climbing down, picking up our poles them doing it again 20 feet later…brutal on the body (we have the scrapes to prove it!).