Hiking to the springs is a fun hike and we look forward to it every year. The canyon is so low in elevation it cooks during the summer, so wait for fall to take advantage of the cooler weather. Having the fall leaves is a bonus.
Due to the craziness in the world, I had to work quite a bit the last few months, so this year we are later than usual and missed a lot of the colorful leaves. No customers = no money to pay for employees = me working 🙂
Followed these ladies up the road 🙂
When we arrived at the trail head, we were greeted with this. Closed. Very disappointed. With such a stressful month we were really looking forward to fun day.
We decided to find a place to hike because we drove a couple hours to get here. We turned around and went to the camping area and decided to walk along the river.
This is the closest we were able to get to a spring. You can see, and smell!, the cloudy sulfur running through in the river.
Eli wasn’t too disappointed. He enjoyed playing with sticks, rocks, and throwing all of them into the river.
Okay, Paul and Eli had fun throwing rocks, sticks and anything else they could find into the river. 🙂
End of fall.
Asking a 5 year old to sit and smile nicely. I was trying to tickle him to get a natural smile out of him and this is what we got.
Even though we couldn’t get higher to the springs, it was a nice being in the mountains.
A little further up we found a patch of red leaves.
On the way home we stopped at the red rocks.
Eli found sand to play in. He still loves a good sand box.
Even though we couldn’t hike to the springs, we were together as a family. And that’s all that matters.