Saturday, August 18, 2007

On Top of the World

Today Jeremy and I went on a hike with Kirsten and Rex. We started just outside of town by driving Kirsten's 4 wheel drive vehicle up several switch backs which begin several hundred feet below the bottom of this waterfall at the east end of town. We then parked near the top of the waterfall, and hiked for the next five hours!



From where we parked, you could just barely see the edge of town, not to mention the beautiful view of our valley.



From there we began to climb up and up, way past the point where Jeremy and I were ready to turn back, and yes up above the tree line. We parked at an elevation of 10,000 feet and over 5.25 miles gained another 2000 feet during our hike. We journeyed on in hopes of making it to Blue Lake, which we finally accomplished 3 hours after setting out from the car. It was absolutely beautiful of course!




4 comments:

Deborah Hasty said...

Incredible! Beautiful! Wish I could experience it myself. Great pics both on your blog and on the Hasty Family page. Wonderful adventures you are living; thank you for sharing. Love ya, ma.

Anonymous said...

Your pictures never stop amazing me. They are very beauful. wish when we traveled years ago our pictures were that good. Ours look like old time.

Anonymous said...

oops forgot this g. Hasty

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing the absolutely beautiful pictures of your travels with us. Through your pictures we are seeing places we will most likely never have the opportunity to see. We love seeing them, keep them coming.