Tonight Dan, Brent, Bridgette, and I hiked to Stewart Falls. I had never been, so I didn't know what to expect. It's up in Sundance, so you take the ski lifts up to the very top then follow a trail that leads you to the waterfalls. It was a leisurely and beautiful trail! At times I thought I was going to need a machete to chop through the foliage! Some places were so thick and overgrown that you couldn't see the trail. We saw lots of wild life--plenty of chip monks, squirrels, and a deer. We also witnessed two squirrels flirting or playing...they may have even been mating for all I know. It was pretty funny. Once they realized they had an audience they got all bashful and hid in the bushes.Once we got to the waterfall we had a pretty scary moment. Some little kid decided to climb up this steep ledge above the water fall and just kept going and going. He was just free climbing up the mountain, and couldn't have been more than 8 years old. He was the stupidest kid I have ever seen! He wouldn't listen to any of us yelling for him to come back down. He got so high that he disapeared from sight for what seemed like forever. We climbed up the other side of the waterfall to try and see him. We also were yelling across the waterfall trying to see if he was okay. Some other people who were also there sent a young man up after him to help him get down. Finally he reappeared, but he started climbing down the mountain through the middle of the waterfall, we kept yelling for him to stop and go down another way because it was slippery and very mossy. He was just bawling, and I probably would have felt bad for him if he hadn't been such an idiot in the first place. He was able to get down safely, but it was a miracle. He was hiking with his grandpa and I thought that poor old man was going to die of a heart attack. My heart was racing the entire time for that stupid kid that I almost had a heart attack. I thought about recording the entire thing but seriously thought he was going to die, and I didn't want footage of that! It was a pretty effective form of birth control for me :) I officially never want a little boy lol! I guess I am so upset because he was literally so close to dying. Sheeeeesh...okay I am over it.
The gang
Dan and Brent putting their water bottles in the water fall to get them cold
Peace
The Cheever's
The Jensen's