Tuesday, July 2, 2013

kanarra falls.

This was the first hike of the season. Did this hike three times now and still haven't completed the whole thing. The furthest I've gotten was about 4 miles and just under 4 hours round trip. I don't know exactly what started the whole hiking thing but I'm glad it did. Soon, I'll be building on new adventures... indoor rock climbing, rappelling, who knows after that.

This was on the road in. It takes about a mile to get off the access road. The water was ankle deep and perfect to cool your feet off.


Wading through the creek... with some slippery rocks underneath.


The first waterfall you pass by.


And this is the slot canyon to the first waterfall with a ladder to climb over.

 This is the first ladder. The ladder was missing one rung but the climb actually wasn't too bad, at all. After climbing this there was another waterfall that you had to get up and over to get to the rest of the hike.

Just had to stick in a picture of my dirty trail shoes while taking a snack break.

And this is the second ladder. You had to wade through another slot canyon, climb over a couple rocks, saw a few more tiny waterfalls. The water wasn't as deep this time as it was going through the second but the water runs year round.

I'll definitely be heading back to this one and hopefully, get over that second ladder and completely finish off this hike. Getting as far as I did and climbing over some of this stuff was pretty much the whole "good job, good effort" thing but I wanna see it to the end. And to close it off, here's a picture of a lizard doing an awesome job of blending in.

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    1. it definitely was. and this time there wasn't anyone there until the way out.

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  2. Wow your pics are stunning! I love hiking, I have so many fond memories of hiking with my grandfather.
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    1. Thank you! I guess you can say I rediscovered my love for hiking. I used to hike when I was younger with my father and other family members.

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  3. These are such amazing places!!!! I understand your love for hiking totally.. personally I'm too coward to climb like that.

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    1. Thank you. You know, I thought I wouldn't be able to do some of the small climbing that I've done. I've actually even freaked out a little in my head over some of them... but just took a deep breathe and thought about what's on the other side.

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  4. Dang those are pretty amazing pictures considering you just took them with a smart phone! What a great idea for a blog, I'm definitely following.

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    1. Thank you so much. I just checked out your's and I'm following on bloglovin.

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