The weather was beautiful on Sunday so we decided to go hiking.  I found us a local hike to try and it was only 6 minutes from our house.  We downloaded the map of this location on our phones and there were many different trails.  I initially planned on getting us on a 3.6 mile loop, but after we parked, we ended up at a different trail head.  It seemed to be a good loop on the map, so we just headed up.  It was a good uphill hike; when we thought we were done going uphill, there was another stretch.  The surrounding was pretty and we all managed to keep climbing.  When we were finally on highest point of this trail, we had a beautiful view of our valley.  The boys were trying to see where their school was and we finally found it.  After that, it was all downhill.  When we returned to the parking lot, Connor gained 8K steps as we expected.  This was a relatively tough hike with the hills but it was doable and beautiful.  All of us were proud with our steps.  It was so nice to have a beautiful mountain so close to us.