I set my alarm for 5:30am this morning. It's Saturday you may ask and there is no baseball games, I am not meeting my friends at the palms, nothing on the calendar, and I am not even running the Pat Tillman 4.2 mile run (that took place today with 20,000 other individuals).
I had a date with my ten year old and I wasn't about to sleep in and pass up on the opportunity to bond. Like me, Jared doesn't mind getting up on occasion, especially if it involves the outdoors. 
We left the house around 6:15am and headed out to Camelback Mtn.
The weather was absolutely perfect it started out around 60 degrees. 1 mile up and 1 mile back. It took us around 1:40.
Jared was a trooper, there were some definite steep parts and a lot of switch backs. He offered to carry our camelback full of water. Never complained, just a little Jared smirk with small talk now and again.
Afterwards we treated ourselves with some Jamba Juice, yum.
Thanks for being my hiking companion Jared, I hope we can do it again soon!
