Trails 2 Travel

Just to include a few pictures of the lake trip taken by Kimmy.... here they are My beautiful nieces who I gladly spent the majority of my time playing with :] Tyler tearing it up on the wake board.  All of the kiddos together with Ty's brother Trenton and his mom. Lovee all these kids! Soo fun to take care of :] ... well play with haha

 The past week we went to California for Ty's family reunion at Shaver Lake. We drove through the night Tuesday and mistakenly our gps took us a crappy route by Highway 6 and through Yosemite... so it was slow going and a tad scary! I saw two deer on the road on our way that Ty totally missed! Woah! I was super sad that we drove through Yosemite and I couldn't see anything so we determined to go on our way home from the trip! So Saturday we woke up superrr early to have time to make some stops! so here we go....  Not 30 min. driving in the park and we see a cub black bear climbing a tree barely off the road! I made Ty turn around to snap a picture because really.. how many times do you get to be so close to one of these cute little guys? If nothing else went well... going back this long way made the trip worth it to me! We started the main loop with Bridal Veil Falls which was much weaker than it normally is... but the water dumping over the edge of a very tall and ste...

 3rd day of the Grand Canyon: Indian Garden to the top! I slept even worse the 2nd night consequently I woke up right at 5 when there was barely any light. I was going to let the boys sleep a bit longer but I was so bored so I started getting our stuff ready like filling our packs and what not.. they got up like 10 min later.. didn't help that I accidentally flashed the headlamp on them a couple times....  We started up the hill by 6:30 and luckily we got to do most of it by the time the sun hit us. The trail was incredibly daunting as it went right up the cliff face. Luckily there are waterhouses every 1.5 miles up Bright Angel trail so we took a couple of nice rests along the way. We needed to put those packs down every once in a while!  See that peak.. look down along the edge, right at the entrance to this part of the canyon is where we spent the night... ya crazy I know!  We love switchbacks! Thank you Y trail for being so awful! You make everythin...

Second day of the grand Canyon! Cottonwood- Indian Garden We got up bright and early (around 5:30) and repacked our packs. My dad had some raison bran for breakfast while Ty and I just ate fiber one bars. Then we hit the trail while the sun was still well hidden behind the peaks around us.  The whole time we traveled along this Canyon we caught nice glimpses of the South Rim... our final destination and we were amazed at the distance we still had to travel before we could even start going up!  About 1.5 miles past our campsite we found Ribbon Falls... easily one of all our favorite sites. The water was sooo cold but it felt sooo good on our already tired and sore feet! I could've stayed in for a while longer but we still had a ways to go!  The canopy down the rock was sooo beautiful! We just had to climb into the little cave. As the disneyland Jungle Cruise tour guides would say... "May I present the 8th wonder of the world... The BACKSIDE OF WATER"...