Hawkeye Point

A while back, we decided we wanted to start high pointing. High pointing is when you go to the high point in every state. Some are really difficult, like Alaska and Washington, but some of them are super easy! We wanted to start while we were in Utah. The highest point is King's Peak. But the trail is really long, so you have to camp a few nights on it, and with Joslyn still so young, it just wasn't really feasible for us to even try. We looked up the highest point in Minnesota, and it's a seven hour drive from us, it's almost in Canada. So we haven't done that one yet either. But even closer than the Minnesota high point is the Iowa high point. It's right on the boarder of the two states, and only 3 hours from us. So over Isaac's long break from school we decided we would drive out there and get our first high point. Hawkeye point is one of the one that is super easy. You can drive right up to it.

This is Hawkeye Point, the highest point in Iowa

When we pulled off the side of the road to get out, our car got stuck in the snow. We were stuck there for about 30 minutes, trying to get a tow truck to come help us, but then some nice guys who lived across the highway saw us, and came and pulled us out.

Us at the summit

Here are some cute pictures of Joslyn eating cereal all by herself.