"Adventure is out there!"

Curt & I have been wanting to start hiking

while we're here in Cache Valley. Don't know why we 

haven't before, but we finally got to go yesterday after

talking about it for months.

It was quite the adventure! We decided to go on the 

Richards Hollow's hike up Blacksmith Fork Canyon.

The hike in its entirety is a little over 5 miles (I believe one way) but a little over 1 mile into it there is supposed to be a 25 ft. waterfall. That's why we chose this hike and were only going to hike up to the waterfall and back.

So we drove up the canyon only to find a gate blocking off the road to get to our trailhead. We decided to just take a little jot up the road and maybe we'd run into the trailhead. After 30 minutes of that and soaking in the beautiful day we decided to turn back and take the trail that was right by our car. Right when we made it back we saw a park ranger & decided to ask him if he knew how far up the trail it was to Richards Hollow's. 

He explained that it was a mile to a mile and a half up the road and there'd be a sign on our left for it.

So we looked @ each other and decided to give it another shot.

An hour and 15 min later we reach the trailhead. That park ranger must have his markings off b/c that's like 3-4 miles of road.

But we were excited to finally see the sign and really "began" our hike there. Not 10 minutes into it the stinkin' trail was cut off by the raging stream. Unfortunately, it was going way too fast for us to cross and there didn't appear to be an easy way around. So due to the time we headed back down the mountain and hit the long walk back to the car.

It'd be a pleasant hike if we could've just driven up to the trailhead, but surprisingly we really had a ball together! 

We got some great shots and we'll have to try it again when the water's not so high! 

Curt wants to hike about twice a month, I'm not much of a fan as I thought I'd be so I'm thinking more like once a month(:

We'll see...here's the pictures!

He's SO excited to be walking on the nice rocky, dirt road(:

Although we did have a gorgeous view!

The long-awaited sign!

The raging stream! 

(still have snow on the mountain that needs to come down)

Our sad trail.

Don't know if you can tell but the Bottom/Middle-R of the pic is where we needed to cross to the Top/Middle-L of the picture.

Doesn't look too bad from here but in actuality that stream takes quite the dive about 10 feet down.

The Waterfall!

Not the one we were going for but we saw it on the drive up and still thought it was pretty!

It still amazes me that we can drive 20 minutes and get to be surrounded by so many pretty sights!(: