I loaded the kids straight from bed in jammies into the car at 6 am. We stopped to fill up the car with gas and pick up cousin Sierra. We checked in to the Visitor Center, strapped on "monkey backpacks" (those are leashes for kids!) and headed up the hike at 7:15. It's a paved trail that is 1.5 miles one way with 1,100 foot elevation gain and really steep drop offs.
Sierra and I traded kids every few minutes and we marched right up to the cave entrance. It took about an hour and we didn't have to carry the kids at all.
A lot of people were hiking for exercise, but I didn't see any other 3 or 4 year olds on the trail. We got a lot of comments about their good hiking skills and their backpacks.
The cave was CHILLY. It's 45 degrees all year and I didn't have a jacket so I was a little cold. It was 100 degrees outside, so we were glad that we started hiking early. Isaac was the "door opener and light switcher" on the tour of the cave.
We had a picnic and ice cream cones at the snack bar. Ikey was really tired. He said he took a nap on this bench. He didn't stop talking the whole time we were there, so I'm not sure he actually fell asleep.
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