Weekend Fun!

Saturday we got up early and picked up the 4-wheeler from Grandma's house. We drove up Diamond Fork Canyon till we got to the end. We unloaded the 4-wheeler, put our lunch in the seat, and took off. We tried to go on several different trails, but they were blocked off. One of them had a way around the fencing, so we took it. There were all kinds of bones where the trail ended. We parked there, then hiked up to the top of the hill and ate lunch. On the way back, we decided to hike up to the hot pots, which was what we wanted to do earlier, but there was no parking anywhere. It was a fun "kinda" easy hike (I'm out of shape, plus this higher altitude kills me). There were a few families at the lower ones, so we hiked to the ones near the waterfall. It's so pretty there, but the water in the higher pots is so dirty! I felt gross most of the hike back, because of the smell. We asked this guy to take our picture with the waterfall in the background, obviously he didn't do so well at getting the waterfall in the picture.

On Sunday we went to listen to my sister's talk, then had dinner at my parent's house. We took the 4-wheelers up the hill to where the avalanche was a few years ago and drove them up the ditch the avalanche had made. it was a fun ride. We parked them and hiked up the mountain to the cave the bears lived in (Last year, a bear was found in several people's yards. The city captured the mama and baby bear when it wouldn't go back up the hill and was scaring most of the residents). There wasn't a trail, so we just hiked up the mountain, pushing through the trees. We were all scraped up by the end of the hike. We had to up this rock slide (again from the avalanche). That was funny. We took one step up and went down 2 steps. It was a steep hike, we had to use our hands to get up some parts of the mountain. 

The lower cave, where the bears must have lived was scary. There was a small opening and it had bones all around it, and many, many more inside of it. I wasn't even going to think about going inside that cave. The upper cave was more of a cove. It was about as big as our living room. It was really cool. After resting in the upper cave, we hiked up on top of the caves. That was a scary hike, I felt like if a made one false move, or stepped on one loose rock, I'd fall down the cliff. We were just on this bolder sticking our of the mountain. It was such a pretty view, you could see the whole town and all of the valley. If you looked up the hill, as my sister is doing in that picture, you can see another cave, and all of the damage the avalanche made. It's crazy how much destruction they can cause.