Soatsome point this month shiloe, ourfriend Rhett and Idecided we wanted to hike the mountain in Cedar Hills just behind all of the houses. We drove to the top where they stopped any there was a friendly sign warning not to trespass....
SOoo we turned around discouraged but still determined to climb at least one mountain! We went up the canyom and I vaguely remembered how to et to a trail krysta had mentioned before-timpooneke (sp?) - so we made it there.but decided to find the julie andrews meadow first. On the way there was a sign for another trail-something to do withbears- from this point forward jokes were made and our imaginations ran wild with techniques and situations "if a bear...." Etc.
We found the meadow then turned around.... This was notnearly enough mountain conquered to satisfy our hiking thirst!-so we chose a trail that appeared to be timpooneke.
The mountainside was steep on either side of us, and the plant and flowers (and thus bees too) seemed to beovergrowing the trail!!! But we fought on!
Finally after conquering the urge to turn back several times, we made it!! To a dead end. The hikers in front of us (a nice family) were kind to warn us the the dead end "unless you want to go rock climbing" they said.... Well 3hett blazed the trail and we fell behind, realizing how out of shape we were. Butwe madeit, and sure enough Rhett waited for us at the top-perched under a waterfall (there were three large ones acrossthe curved wall). He then had us video tape his walking through it. We took pictures, rested, then headed back down the trail. :) now that is most everything you need to know about this adventure (minus the bees/bugs)
Felix ferdinand II
lol! Julie Andrews meadow?? is that for real or did you guys just call it that cuz it looked like the Sound of Music? And there is actually a way to the waterfall that doesn't involve climbing that rockslide (though thats what we did the first time too). You follow the path to the right and you'll switchback to another fork that says "Scout Falls" or something like that and then there is a path that takes you over to it. We totally should hike it next saturday or something and this time go up further to the glacial meadow. :D
ReplyDeleteok :) i will bug Shiloe to see if he can switch his day off to Saturdays instead of fridays that might help with our scheduling difficulties.... but i can't guarantee anything!
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