Darby canyon wind cave.

On August 23rd we hiked the Darby Canyon and the Wind Cave at the end.  It starts a couple of miles south of Driggs.  It was super fun, and very scenic, with a cool (two meanings intended) cave at the end.  It was about 3 miles in.  It was pretty steep, but very beautiful terrain.  It had just rained the night before (it even looked a little questionable that morning, but we went anyway), so it was very fresh and green everywhere.

Here we are at the begining (except we took this pic at the end, because I had a giant finger print on my lenz at the begining, so we had to do a retake).

Left to right:  Jen + baby, Randa, Candee, Deidra, Karen, Shauna, and Luana

Karen and Luana just having a good time!

Click on this pic, it's worth it to see it bigger.

Rrrrranda, Ooh Laa Laa!  You can see the cave in the background.

Waterfall coming out of the cave.  Good pic Karen!

Here's the mouth, click on this picture too, see how small we are at the base there.  This thing was huge!  And cold too, the breeze coming out was freezing.  We were in there for a while, and our fingers got chilled.

Candee maneuvering a steep spot inside.

If you look very closely you an see Shauna army crawling through a tough spot in the cave.  We let her go ahead and see what was up there, and her report of more crawling was enough for us, we turned around.  Perhaps another time with knee pads, gloves, and more batteries, and no one waiting for us outside (only some of us wanted to go in), we'll be more adventureous.  Apparently there's a big cavern not too far in, but it was one army crawl further than we were willing to go.

Jen getting outa-there.  This was pretty tight spot.

This is the view out, it was cool!  See that tenacious tree towards the top clinging on for dear life.

This was a neat spot on the way down.  We're acting a little goofy.  Good thing Karen held up that rock, I'd hate to think what would have happened to us otherwise!  This hike took us about 8 hours, including driving, hiking, lunch, standing up from lunch (we got stove up), and exploring.  Come join us next time, it's so fun.

Rails to Trails bike ride

I know, I know, we're a hiking group, right?  But apparently we had a disire to "cross-train" because here we are on our bikes.  On August 13th we picked up the "rails to trails" path in town by the church and semetary, and rode out Drummond way.  I've never been on this path, but some had.  It was beautiful!  It took us on a gradual grade up to Drummond, through farm fields and pastures and over a couple of bridges with awesome views.  Some of us had to be back to town, or our bums were killing us, so we turned around at Drummond, and some went on for a while.  The funny thing was, the ones who went on eventually turned around and came back (duh!) and decided to go fast, and they caught up to us slow pokes (mainly because we had stopped for a road crossing, gotten into a conversation, and forgot to start up again).  Imagine our embaressment when they came laughing up behind us and we were just standing there flapping our jaws, lol.  Everyone had fun!

Here we all are, Jen, Vickie, Suzanne, Randa, Candee (notice I spelled your name right, Candee), Karen and Madison.

This was one of the bridge crossings, so pretty!