We packed up and then just drove around a couple of the campgrounds near the lake just to see what they were like and if we would want to hit them up later this summer. I think we will totally be doing that. Then we decided to take some random road and see where it headed to. Turns out it heads up to 4 other campgrounds and another lake called West Ten Sleep Lake. There are a number of trails that start out of there and head off into the wilderness. Kylie chose a trail and we took off. We were at 9100+ feet elevation, so I didn't really expect Kylie (or myself!) to last very long. :) We walked for a little while, stopped for a snack break and then walked some more. We got to a point where we left the trail and went down to check out the river. Turns out, just a little farther up, the trail turns and you have to cross the river. By walking through it. Needless to say, we weren't doing that with the girls. Not quite ready for that yet.
West Ten Sleep Lake
Note the snow on the ridge across the lake!
I don't think it ever it 70* up there while we were hiking!
Oh how I LOVE this photo
Snack Break!
The waterfall was more of a cascading downward river fall
:)
We will later be wandering around down in that grassy area
Look - even WY flora is cheering for the Vikings! :)
The bushy brown tail of some sort of woodchuck like creature
before it disappeared into the rocks!
Where we stopped to turn around.
Just behind those evergreens next to the river are
two ropes to hold onto as you cross the river.
We walked back down along the river and got to the top of the small waterfall and stopped for another snack break. Then we continued to follow the river down and eventually had to leave it and head back up to the trail. Kylie then slowed waaay down and gave up. She said she was too tired to walk anymore. Mike gave her a ride the rest of the way back.
It was nice to get out and see some new areas.
We also managed to see some random wood chuck like creature before it hid in the rocks and while we were driving back to the highway to head home we also got to see a moose. So that was fun too!
The view from our second snack break.
Me and my Sidney Bean
(the grassy area)
Kylie managed to only step into the little 1 foot wide creeks
down there only once. And never complained about having a
wet foot.
Must be because she purposely sprays her shoed feet at home
with the hose.....
Getting a ride back
-I would have posted this yesterday, Monday or even Sunday night, but my computer has stopped recognizing my SD card when I put it in and I couldn't get the pictures downloaded to the computer. And I just found my cord for the camera yesterday! and of course last night the pictures wouldn't upload to the post!
Thank goodness Mike has mandatory days off. We got to enjoy him being home Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday. He left yesterday morning to go to one of the fuels crews projects. This one is in SW WY. They are planning on being home Sunday sometime.
Going to try to plan something cold for Thursday. Forecast calls for 100+ degrees. Not ok at all.
Hope you're all having a good week!
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