She who hikes and climbs

We had made plans to go snowshoeing on New Year day, but plans had to be canceled due to various reasons. I was very disappointed to have to cancel, except that is how life goes at times isn't it? We were then going to try and go on Saturday but that didn't' work either. So we planed for Sunday. On Sunday morning Miss A, Cookie the dog and I left later then I had planned on because I had not slept well due to a huge thunder and lighting storm that happened at 3 a.m. I forgot that I had to get gas before picking L up. When we arrived to pick L up we still had not decided on where we were going to go hiking at. While driving Miss A informed us that she wanted to go to Beaver Lake again. (I don't have a post for Beaver Lake because we did that hike before I started the blog.) I stated that I wanted to do a hike that we had not done before, so L pulled out her maps and begun looking at them. Miss A was still adamant that we go to Beaver Lake so L handed the maps to Miss A...

On the Saturday after Veteran's day L and I took 2 of my kiddos and the dog on a hike. Since it was so cold and sunset is so much earlier, and L had some duties to perform at church, we chose a nice short hike. After church was done the kids and I came home, ate, changed, and packed the dog into the car and headed to L's house. We picker her up and drove to Fairhaven Falls trail head. Once we arrived the small parking lot area was very full and as you can see in the picture below we had to park along the shoulder of the road, and had to cross the road to get to the trail head. This is a busy road so please be careful while crossing it. Once we crossed the road we were able to walk on this path that felt somewhat safer. We saw this sign at the beging of the trail head that read that there were salmon sightings. It answered our question as to why it was so busy and why there were so many cars. Once we read the sign we decided to follow them. Which was simple sinc...