Michael & Amanda and chicklets to call our own: Hidden Falls

We love hiking. We would do it every day if we could. We love waterfalls. We love mountains. We love wildlife. We love the outdoors. In fact, we love all of these things to much that they will probably be our deciding factor in where we end up living more than anything else. Sorry moms. And we enjoy the outdoors as often as we possibly can. This time around, we decided to take a friend with us, since she also likes hiking and likes us. We went to Teton National Park to hike around Jenny Lake. We've heard lots of good things about Jenny Lake and have been to the Tetons and through the park even a bunch of times, but have never done anything around this lake. The hike was a couple miles long, like 3 ish but you can cut it in half by riding a boat across the lake and walking only a short distance to the falls then back to the boat. Since we actually enjoy the walking aspect of hiking, we chose to omit the boat ride no matter how cool it looked. We had Ivan in his cool carrier backpack and started our walk. The scenery is simple stunning. I cannot believe how gorgeous the Teton Mountain Range is. It amazes me every single time we go. I'm so grateful to live close by and be able to visit pretty much whenever we want.

Ivan was not happy about being stuck in the back pack and he sure let us know about it. There were quite a few people on the trail, since it was the weekend and a really nice day, and I felt bad that Ivan was crying while we were hiking. But hey, that's better warning to the bears that we were coming! Parts of the trail were so heavily covered in berry plants that I expected a bear to be on the trail with us! Thank goodness they weren't ripe yet, and I sure wouldn't take this trail at any other time of year. Ivan eventually settled down. He's got to the point that he needs to be free to move and explore at his own pace. Too bad that doesn't keep up with mom and dad. I can't remember why, but we were on a pretty tight schedule that day, so we were really pushing the pace.

Hidden Falls

The falls were pretty, and very well hidden from the trail. We almost thought that these falls were called something else because the trail didn't go right to them. We got to see people that had taken the boat ride on the opposite side, which was neat, and encouraging because our view was better. On our way out of the parking lot we heard a noise like we had a flat tire, oh great. But they had just paved the parking lot and had one of those flappy things that marks the parking spots come loose. Thank goodness! I just pulled that thing off and we were good to go! On our way out of the park we spotted an antelope. A pretty close antelope too.