On Thursday, we did a medium (a little over 5 miles) hike up to Gladiator Pass. We weathered a brief shower in the car before starting the hike in sunny weather. Micah sang to us and recited some of his favorite stories while riding on Daddy's back, and Ezra squawked a little but mostly smiled on my back as we hiked up. However, as we neared the top, we got caught in an oncoming cloud that started spitting rain and dropping the temperatures, so we made a pretty hasty retreat back down before anyone got too cold. Ezra just didn't even want to deal and fell asleep for the hike down, haha.
On Friday, the high was less than 50 degrees with rain, so we knew we weren't going too far. We decided to do two short hikes that never took us too far from the car in case of a downpour: Pettit Lake and Redfish Lake. Both were pieces of much longer trails that circles lakes and their surrounding areas. We just did short out and backs along one side of the lake for each of them. We then elected for an afternoon in the hotel resting and staying warm. Fortunately, the weekend looked to be beautiful, so we got prepped for some longer (and warmer!) hikes.