Syndicate Falls

Ross has free trips to cool places in the weeks before a new semester.  We've gotten to be a part of a few good ones (that's how we got to Red Rock).  It definitely was a mass hike to Syndicate Falls, which is never my favorite, but it turns out, it was worth it. 

Here is Wonderman helping a small child cross a river:

Here is how we do vacay photos (we actually had a number of others taken by very helpful and nice people, but they're all out of focus, or we have lame expressions, or the reflectors on my backpack caught the flash and totally over-took the picture, or something).  Still, it's us and Syndicate Falls:

This is a tree next to the side of the falls that is growing horizontally from the side of the cliff.  It was pretty crazy.

This is a family here that we really like:

This is my new friend, K.  She wears black nail polish, loves mountains, and wants to live in Alaska when she grows up (ok, technically she is a grown-up, much more so than me since she has two kids, which automatically qualifies her as a grown-up, but still.  Alaska).

These are the plants along the trail that totally look like something plastic I would buy at Michael's, were there a Michael's nearby and had I a reason to buy green plants.  The point is, they were so perfect, they didn't seem real.

This is my attempt at capturing the sweeping vistas from the hike.  It's a little bit hard to convey, since it's all green, but still it was incredible. 

We ended the hike with fresh sugar cane.  It was strange, but sweet.  I think that I had enough to be good forever.  No need to suck on fibrous sweetness again.

It was a good hike.