First Hike of 2021-Bell Canyon

Last Saturday, Rob had a hike planned with his Young Men's group.  He couldn't find another adult leader to go with him so I came with all the kids.  Then as we were supposed to be leaving, he got a call from a guy in the neighborhood saying he could come with.  By that point we were already all ready and the kids were excited about hiking so we ended up going with them.   It's a good thing the other guy was there because he went ahead with the boys and Rob, and I stayed back with the girls.  Finley wanted to stop at every pebble and flower and the other girls enjoyed finding and pointing out lots of nature.  So it was good that the Young Men didn't have to lag behind with us.  We ended up making it to the waterfall, staying for a bit and then heading back down.  The boys all stayed and shot wrist rockets and then headed back. We only beat them to the car by about 5 minutes, so it worked out perfectly.  

I had to document Riley's hiking outfit.  Note the long socks over her jeans.  :)

Before we started the hike.  Finley wore that backpack for about 10 minutes and then Riley had to carry it the rest of the way.

At the lake. 

One of the things the girls stopped me to look at.  Then they wanted a picture. The rock was so big!

Beautiful.

Us girls on the trail back.  Finley took a little spill but she recovered alright after I had the brilliant idea to start calling her "Romeo" from her favorite show PJ Masks.  Then she pretended to be him the rest of the way down.  I was lots of different characters.  Anything to help her keep walking!  :)

Hopefully we will be able to go on lots more hikes this summer!