One of the things that I've felt for the past few years is that we waste living in Utah with our kids. Granted we've had babies for a lot of years and that complicates things, but now we're just letting sport and work and school and busy schedules get in the way so this summer I was determined to do more. First up: more local hikes.
We literally live within a 5-20 minute drive of hundreds of amazing short, long, easy, difficult, fun hikes to rivers, lakes, waterfalls, over looks, and mountain peaks.
To start us out- let's explore Bells Canyon.
The reservoir was steep to get up to and then there wasn't much space for the kids to play around it- no beaches.
So we ate a snack and headed up to the falls. A much longer hike but very worthwhile.
Now we know, this is not the hike for playing. Not much space at the falls to play in plus lots of cold snow-melt spray. Ethan refused to even come close so I let him take our picture. Isaac cried the whole time that he was freezing! It felt good after the climb up and then steep descent.
The boys made up a sort of bowling game on the way down which was fine as long as we weren't running into other people. Pick a rock, throw it down the trail and see where it stops. Not my cup of tea, but they were very entertained the whole way down.
And of course a quick stop to throw rocks in the river was needed.
A little bouldering fun when we find them.
I left Isla home with Taylor on this hike since I knew it would be too much for her and since he needed to get work done. Fun to be enjoying Utah with my boys though.
