Watched a few movies as we drove 5 hours to Sinks Canyon State Park in Wyoming. Where it that? Just outside Lander. Where is Lander? Ha! I thought the same thing! 🙂
We arrived at Frye Lake pretty late. This is what we saw.
Eli didn’t hesitate. He was out playing in the water.
A side note for next year: We arrived Thursday night and we were pretty lucky to find a spot to park the trailer. People started rolling in Friday and left Sunday Afternoon. Monday- Wednesday we had the campground to ourselves.
We got up late the next morning and went for a hike to Popo Agie Falls.
This was the most miserable hike I have been on. Hot. Hot. Hot. No shade. Hiking through desert. Hot. Miserably hot. How hot?? Eli summed it up below.
Eli did stop whining after he saw some lady walking her racoon. Yes, a racoon. He was on a leash and everything. Only in Wyoming.
Up and up and up in the heat. We finally came to a river. So the falls must be close?
Kept going up. Just because there is a nice roaring river, didn’t mean it cooled off.
Finally we came to the water fall in the distance. Little Pea was so relieved to make it to the falls.
Then we kept going and found this fun little bridge.
Kept going and we found some pools to play in. That made a little 6 year old all sorts of happy. He just wanted to take his shoes off and get his feet wet. Before we knew it, he was wet waist down.
Several hikers kept asking if this was the waterfall slide. Slide? What slide? So we had to keep going.
And here is the slide. A huge waterfall. People were climbing to the top and sliding down. Eli wanted us to go down. Thought about it. We capped our insurance and we are at 20%, so why not. Thinking again I thought I would break a hip on the way down, so we passed.
This canyon had some beautiful wild flowers.
On the way back…
The trail guide said it was 1.5 miles to the waterfall. They were way off. 1.89 to the falls. I think 1.5 miles was how the crow flies, 1.89 miles is how the hiker hikes on the trail. 🙂
The falls were well worth the hike. I would definitely go again, but early in the morning.