…OK not really, but we DID go on a child-friendly hike a couple weeks ago! (Grotto Trail up the Payson Canyon.)
The last time we did this hike (last summer), we enjoyed the cute babbling brook that you repeatedly cross over on makeshift log bridges. This year, since there had been so much rain, some of the bridges were washed out and that babbling brook that trickled along was more of a crazy crashing creek (just trying to keep the words starting with the same letter, here).
(Note the rickety little half-log that Chase is standing on.) In hindsight, I realize that we were absolutely crazy to do this hike. I kind of felt that at the time, once when Charlotte almost fell in & once when Chase & his friend were sprinting along the trail next to the water. In the last couple weeks in this area of Utah, there have been lots of kids falling into rushing water and not surviving. It’s very sad. We did have a great 4:3 adult:kid ratio on our hike, though.
Pace was daring enough to take off his shoes and get into the freezing cold creek to take this picture! Weird that last summer, we were able to cross a bridge and get to the waterfall to play in it. Not this time!
Charlotte enjoyed the hike overall, but she freaked out when she got mud on her shoes & once again when she saw an ant on her foot. Chase & the neighbor kid we brought along had the best time just throwing rocks & other debris into the creek. And Chase’s bendy legs looked too weird in this photo to NOT include it in the post!