Worth the hike....

Monday Eldon and I decided we needed to go see some waterfalls.

We went to Silver Falls State Park. Unfortunately, dogs aren't allowed on the trails, so Wes had to stay behind. The park boasts 10 waterfalls in a 7 mile radius, and it's definately worth going.

Because it was summer, the falls weren't nearly as exciting as they were in the pictures, so we have vowed to go back in winter or spring to see them in all their glory, but even without them being at full capacity, they were still gorgeous.

This is the first one we went to.. South Falls.


We were able to go underneath it.


As usual with us, there was much goofing off.



The second was Lower South Falls...


another pretty falls we could go under.

only after walking down this though...



We passed by this one...

(You could go down to it, but it wasn't exactly ON the trail, so we passed it up.)

Then we went to Double Falls. It doesn't seem that impressive now, but it surely is in the winter months. We went down to it and it was getting warm, so I decided to get a bit wet.


Then it was Eldon's turn to catch some spray at the next falls.


We decided to go off the path and get closer to this one... it was decidedly our favorite of the falls on the trip.

We discovered that Winter falls is aptly named, as there was nothing falling from it this summer!



and that this area has some REALLY big old trees.

We finished off the 5+ mile hike and headed back to the car, but still wanted to see the other falls we missed. For us lazy people though, there was no way we could hike another 2 miles up and 2 miles back, so we drove to the North Falls parking area and checked out North and Upper North falls. So glad we did... they were just beautiful.


and one of my favorite pics..
the obligitory kissing in front of a landmark.