Thursday, April 23, 2009

Change of plans II…white water to water falls

Due the cancellation of my rafting plans this weekend (I'm still bitter!) I filled Saturday with a kayak trip but still had Sunday free. Diane wanted to get out so we diceided to take a hike up to Wallace Falls. I though this would be worth the hike since most of the low level snow is now melting (though not enough to let me go boating!) it should be feeding the water falls nicely.
We took off really early since we knew the weather was supposed to be really nice and this is a very popular trail when the sun comes out and it was already t-shirt weather by 9am. When we arrived at the trailhead there were only three cars there one of which was the park ranger (I guess Maggie gets a leash today!). We took off about 9:30 and began the uphill walk to the falls (this trail one of those uphill both ways types of trail). We made it 3+ miles to the top of the and stopped for lunch. Diane made some flat bread sandwiches topped off with a little Baconaisse Lite – talk about a treat!

By this time we decided both ourselves and Lily had enough and we should probably work our way back down to the car. On the 2.5 hike uphill we only passed only one other hiker and no dogs…on the way back we passed at least 40 people wheezing their way up the trail and at least a dozen dogs (looks like a good time to leave!)

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