Two weekends after D2S we went for a hike. Sometimes you just got to get out of town right? Well, that's how I feel. We didn't know where to go but I finally landed on trying a new hike that our friends Katie and Jeff had posted about. Katie had texted me directions but something went wrong in the transmission because we never found the correct place, which was supposed to be Canyon City Trail near Jenny Gulch, Pactola, and Rapid Creek. I still really want to find this trail but we had a fail that day. We totally ended up doing the Deerfield Trail which we've done twice in the past (1 and 2).
Katie's directions took us off 385 at Silver City Road, same as what we did for Deerfield trail before. But she had us turn right on Jenny Gulch Road, which we did, about halfway down, instead of going all the way to Silver City. Then we were supposed to turn left on Kelly Gulch Road...except Kelly Gulch never ever appeared. We didn't see it on the way out either. I couldn't find it on any map when we got home! We went all the way down Jenny Gulch until it turned into a Jeep trail and we rubbed the bottom of our van running boards and muffler on rocks, etc. When we came to the end of the road there was a parking lot and a trail. We decided to get out and explore the trail since we had already considered turning around and decided to press on.
There was a small creek so bonus! Notice Evie's blanket? That's what she gets for ignoring our instructions to grab her jacket and ignoring her common sense. 🙊
After perhaps a half mile on this drab little trail, we came out to a larger, more well used trail that looked mightily familiar.
Terry said we could come back after Thanksgiving for this Christmas tree. And Noah likes to try to photo bomb every picture I take. 😑
That was definitely Rapid Creek and I was 99% sure that this was Deerfield Trail. I was right of course. Ha ha. This was just further up from Silver City than we had ever gone. So now there's a chunk in the middle that we'll have to do sometime.
Very pretty indeed though all the leaves had fallen by this time.
We came to this lovely bridge and I made them all stand there.
"Stand there now!" 😂
Bridges are fun.
I loved the color of the water. It was deeper here.
Here's the one video I took.
Continuing on up the creek. The trail switched to the southern side of the hill where the sun couldn't reach at this time of year and there was a lot of mud from the snow melting in the shade.
We met some folks coming down the trail and they gave us a heads up about another creek, Slate Creek, which joined Rapid Creek and the trail turned there. They're on the first bridge over Slate Creek. We followed it up to the left.
Heading off into the canyon that the creek runs through.
There were many, many of these bridges so that was fun.
What wasn't as fun was the winter dreariness. All the leaves were gone and there wasn't a lot of sunlight because the canyon was kind of close. This hike would definitely be a lot better in summer time. Then you could trudge up through the creek if you wanted to cool off.
Then if your dingo Ezra fell in the mud and couldn't figure out how to wash off, it wouldn't be a big deal. 😂
Evie on a rock.
Noah on a rock.
Terry on a rock.😛
The trail finally started going uphill and we thought maybe we would get somewhere that looked different. But no. It just came back down to the creek and everything looked the same. We turned around here. We'd gone about two or two and a half miles at this point.
There was the most mud going up and then back down that hill so Luna was a mud ball.
She got cleaned off in the creek though. She definitely got a bath as soon as we got home. So did the kids! 😆
Another one of the bridges on the way down this time.
Back to that beautiful blue green water and bridge.
It wasn't prettiest there.
I had Noah take our picture...hence the weird expressions. Terry looks like he is considering violence and I am not smiling. Oh Noah.
Trudge trudge trudge back. We were tired and hungry and the sun was going down. Stupid time change. I hates it!
WE HATES IT FOREVER! 😂😆ðŸ˜
And that's it! It was a fun hike and still wonderful to get outside under the sun, but I wish we could've found the correct hike. We ended up doing about four and half or close to five miles. That's petty good for an Ezra.
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