hello from Tofte, Minnesota we are at the Carlton Peak trailhead is actually
also called the Britton Peak Trailhead is where the starting point is but this
also brings you to Carlton Peak so we're gonna hike this trail today we're gonna
go to Carlton Peak first since that's longer and then afterwards we're gonna
go do the Britain Peak so these two trails are actually considered to be part of
the Temperance River State Park so pretty cool we've never hiked either of
these trails yet so we're excited to see it and experience it and it's a
beautiful day for a hike so let's get started here is the start of the trail
here at the Britton Creek Trailhead as you can see it's about 1.5 miles to the
Carlton Peak so 3 miles roundtrip so might as well bust out the big ones
before we pick on the little ones
so if you're just tuning into this video we actually were just kayaking at Split
Rock State Park we just went in kayaks in front of the lighthouse and back and
that was so pretty so that's what we did this morning and now this afternoon we
have all these longer hikes planned so it's gonna be a good day if we're hiking
we did lather up and put a whole bunch of bug spray on because we are
starting to see a little bit more bugs come out now it's July 10th so it's the
middle of summer of course so tis the season for more bugs there is a really
nice breeze today so that helped so yeah it should be a good day it's probably
like what 77 to 80 degrees today beautiful data from the trailhead you
just cross the road here so be careful crossing the road lots of traffic we got
one more sign here as we cross the road alright and this trail is part of the
superior hiking trails so this is like a tree that has a marker on it oh yeah
that's true we just kind of keep our eyes on that too when we're hiking and
that will lead us all the way to carlton peak so the trail is actually really dry
but then they also have like this boardwalk area as you can see they put
over more like marshy areas so that's really nice still haven't really seen a
lot of muddy areas at all yeah however if I do I'll let you know because I did
see and some of the reviews that sometimes there can be muddy areas but I
don't know I'm sure it depends on the time of year too so we shall see
oh we just ran into a tiny bit of mud here but easily able to go around it the
trail is really actually nicely groomed for the most part like the weeds are
back it's a decent and wide and a little bit more mud there but again totally
manageable right coming up on mud but so far we can get around it that is super
squishy looking
now it's getting rocky climbin this reminds me of when we hike to the bean
and bear loop this was very much like that trail very rocky up and down hill
but that was a beautiful hike too but longer hike than this one so for the
most part this hike is actually really shaded with coverage which is really
nice and then there's a few spots where the Sun peeks through and then it gets
hot but otherwise it's been really comfortable for the most part but now
that we're going uphill we're getting we're getting more warmed up now okay oh
yeah actually I hear kind of see we're climbing as I mentioned earlier we added
spray yourself down with bug spray but I don't even think we had to do that which
were kicking ourselves for because we hate wearing bug spray we try and stay
away from that as much as we can oh you think here since we're going deep
in the woods you should get ready for it but the bugs aren't that bad
so now we're kind of walking on the edge it's like beep down on the left of us
now we're at the treetops get real fun now you have you can yeah I'll get off
now we gotta figure out next to us I
think we're getting close to the summit
sould we sign it yes of course 7-10-20 we did it
all right there's the sign we're getting there to the summit oh yeah now it's
getting steeper we're getting closer
we made it
all right we made it it's still three oh my gosh you imagine this at ball time
this would be gorgeous nice my husband's sweating his back little
sweaty so he's trying to air out his shirt so pretty up here I can't believe
the views this is Carlton peak summit so cool the hike was super worth it and not
hard at all so yeah worth it
that was it that was so pretty oh my gosh
definitely something another one knows hikes I wanted you in the fall because I
think it'd be like beautiful views of all the colors so definitely keeping
this one under this you kind of felt like you were like on top of the world
but you were so high and yeah it was beautiful now back down and we are gonna
do the Britton peak hike which is a much shorter height alright we just made it
back here to the trailhead we're getting some water and just getting ready
because now we're gonna do the Britton peak hike
so that Carlton peak took us two hours exactly so we got here at noon and it is
exactly 2 o'clock so um good hike so on to the next one alright here is the
start of the Britton peak trail and it is only 0.3 miles one way so nice and
short and I'm ok with that ready honey ready alright next and just
a heads up both of these trail heads are in the same parking lot so on your map
you go right from Tofte up to the Britton peak trailhead and that is where
you can start both of these heights ok so just a heads up everyone so the
first sign right here it says Britton peak to the left and then there's the
arrow for the superior hiking trail straight so just know that Britton peak
you have to turn your don't go straight or you're going to be down at the
superior hiking trail which is much much longer so we're turn in right alright so
because this is such a short hike you're pretty much going straight up to get to
the top of the peak so just be ready we got some stairs and straight up holy
buckets like straight up
oh I'm glad that there's a leaf queen three miles Wow Wow
we like not even been on the trail five minutes then we're ready to the top seen
the views of the treetops already Wow oh
cool wow this is way cool this is like a army memorial for Britton I suppose
that's why it's called Britton peak very cool that's cool Wow
here it is all right you see that hump right there that's Carlton Peak
that's where we just hiked so yea we have a view of where we just were from Britton
peak whoa it's so hot up here yeah I'd like the breeze is not right here so
yeah I can hear the breeze but it doesn't come where we are going on here
so pretty though I was cool all right back down that was a quick one it took
us exactly six minutes to get up there from the trailhead so short and sweet
all right there it is you guys we did it Carlton and Britton peak and it was
amazing especially yeah I mean what would you say hun moderate
easy to moderate right I wouldn't say difficult it was it was moderate I would
say so yeah not bad at all so we did it
thank you guys so much for watching and now we are gonna head over to Temperance River
State Park and do some more hiking along the river and see waterfalls and do all
the fun stuff over there now so stay tuned for that video because that's like
part three of this day up here from kayaking in Split rock to those hikes
and now Temperance River State Park for a little bit more hiking thank you guys so
much for watching if you have any questions let me know in the comments
and we will see you in the next vlog bye guys