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Crimson Trail and Waterfall Canyon

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     About a month ago, Hannah and I moved down to Ogden so I could start working before graduate school starts this fall. With orientation at my new job, unpacking, a couple building projects, and a trip up for my sister's baby showers, we have stayed pretty busy and haven't done too much hiking. Our first weekend here we were able to make it up to Logan and do some hiking with Dave and Kylee. We used to do all sorts of stuff with those two from camping, to motorcycle rides, to going on our first cruise with them. The last two years, Dave has been busy with graduate school in Utah while we were still living in Idaho. It was good to see them for longer than just dinner and great to be back outdoors with them! For their last weekend in Utah, and our first one, we hit up the Crimson Trail which is just outside of Logan, Utah.


     After some decent elevation gain, the trail follows what is called the Great Wall. You can see how just off to the side of the trail, it drops off. What you can't see is that at places it is a good couple hundred feet drop off. So beautiful up there!


The spring growth was everywhere as we hiked.



Part of the creek that flows along the base of the mountains near the trail head.

     It was a great hike and one that we will be doing again, hopefully this fall when the leaves are changing in the canyon. 

     Today, I had the day off and we were all caught up on life and moving in and catching up on chores so we decided to hit a trail not far from our house. I used my trusty google search to find hikes near Ogden and found one called Waterfall Canyon with the trailhead about 4 miles away from our house. A girl at work told me that it was pretty but I was a little sceptical with how close it was. The hike itself is only about a mile in, it does have some decent elevation gain and loose rocks to hike over. 

     When we got up there, the mist was spraying from the waterfall and felt great on our faces. We had both worked up quite the sweat on the hike up so the cool mist was refreshing. I busted out my camera and got it set up on a tripod and was ready to start taking some pictures. . . "No Card in Camera". . . DANG IT! It was still in the computer from the photos I took the other day and where I had my hiking bag, I didn't have a backup card with me. Luckily I had grabbed the GoPro as an after thought and had thought to put a card in it. Between that an my phone, we at least got a few pictures from the hike.


The view at the top makes the hike all worth it. 




     All in all, it was a great day. Rocky was exhausted when we got home and just wanted to sleep. But he usually just wanted to sleep when we get home. It is a hike we will be doing again, and next time I'll make sure to put a card in the camera!

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