Wednesday, October 26, 2011

10th Anniversary trip- Rainbow Falls hike

 We took a fun hike near the mouth of Ogden Canyon called Rainbow Falls. I love hikes that are rewarding, like having a waterfall at the top so I was excited to go. It was quite steep but fun to do together.

This is at a crossover bridge where I was able to be right over the water flowing down the mountain.
 
I stopped to smell the wild roses that were growing along the path.
 
Finally to the top at the falls!

This was about as close as we could get without getting soaked- the falls were that powerful.

They were very high- like 200 feet tall.

I was getting pretty wet in this spot and the falls were so loud at this location we had to yell to each other to be heard.
Looking down to the valley from the falls.  I'm facing the falls and squinting because of the spray.
This butterfly was flying around us on the way down and finally landed in a spot we could take a lovely picture of it.
On our way down, a friendly rattler crossed our path coming out of hibernation. 
We kept our distance. All he seemed to want to do was get away from us and scurry up this hill. I had never seen a rattler alive in the wild before, even living in Arizona, so I was a little freaked out.

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