So we had our first real hike today. And I can say that I am VERY out of shape (wait, round is a shape......ok, so I'm IN shape then). We hiked up to battle creek falls in Pleasant Grove. It was a great little hike. The weather was perfect (around 70 degrees). For the first little bit of the hike you kinda wonder where the water is. The reason is that you can see the creek bed but there isn't any water (the creek has been diverted). After the first part of the hike you come to a bridge across the creek and then you are right by the creek for the rest of the hike up to the falls. The trail was in pretty good shape (mostly rocks and dirt of course). Its a steady up hill hike. Liz and I both realized that we need to walk more. We had to keep stopping and our son Brandon just wanted to get to the falls. When you get to the falls its really nice. You can go right up to waterfall. If it had been a hotter day we might have even gotten wet. Right at the falls the trail gives you two options. You can go down to the base of the falls or you can hike up to the top of the falls (the trail actually continues on after the falls but we only went to the falls on this trip. We did both trails. First we went to the top of the falls. Its a great view of the valley below (there is a picture of that below). The whole hike took us around 2 1/2 hours (we spent a lot of time just hanging around the falls). If you just wanted to hike up and back it shouldn't take more than an hour or so. The whole hike is just over a mile. Obviously since this was an actual hike, a stroller was completely out of the question. Emily rode on my shoulders and with Liz for part of the trip. Brandon had no problem walking all the way up and back. As I mentioned he seemed to mostly wonder why Mommy and Daddy wanted to stop so much. We had a great time and I'm sure Liz and I will have a hard time getting out of bed tomorrow :). Until next week...
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