SMITH'S CREEK

 ANOTHER MATT ADVENTURE. 

SMITH'S CREEK

 TESS AND I NOTICED MATT'S RESENT ADVENTURE ON FACEBOOK AND SOON GOT DIRECTIONS, THE NEXT WEEK WE WHERE OFF AND SEARCHING FOR THIS HIDDEN WATERFALL RIGHT OFF THE ROAD TOWARDS PRAIRIE IDAHO.

 TEAM COUSIN AT AGAIN!

 AFTER DRIVING FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE EVER WE GOT OUT AT THE STARTING POINT OF THE TRAIL. AND SOON FOUND THIS MUTATED CRITTER.

 SOON WE COULD HEAR THE ROAR OF THE FALLS AND TOOK A PEEK...

 PRETTY MUCH SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF US! IT WAS A FRICKEN                      LONG. WAY. DOWN!

 BUT WE SUCKED IT UP AND TOOK SOME PRETTY PICTURES.

 THATS ABOUT ALL I TOOK THAT DIDNT SCARE THE BA-G-GS OUT OF ME.

SINCE THAT FIRST SPOT SCARED US WE SOON DECIDED TO FIND A BETTER ONE...

TESS EEKING AND SHAKING TOWARDS THE EDGE.

  

 CONSIDERING THAT THE CRACK SHE JUST STEPPED OVER JUST PUT HER ON THE OVER HANG OUT THE CLIFF...I DIDNT TELL HER THIS UNTIL AFTER WE HAD LEFT... 

 FINALLY FINDING HER SHOT!

 ONCE SHE WAS DONE AND RAN BACK TO ACTUAL GROUND, I GOT TO CONQUER MY FEAR AND TAKE PICTURES.

SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY

 LITTLE SAGEBRUSH IN A ROCK

WALKING BACK TO THE TRUCK

PUSSY-WILLOWS BLOOMING 

 FAMOUS SELF-PORTRAIT 

WHILE WALKING BACK TO THE TRUCK TESS STOPPED IN HER TRACKS...WELL ACTUALLY MATT'S TRACKS!

THE INFAMOUS MATT TRACKS PROVING THAT MATT HAD JUST BEEN THERE LAST WEEK. (ALTHOUGH WE ARENT POSITIVE THAT THESE ARE REALLY HIS, WE LIKE TO THINK THEY ARE :) 

 FROM ACROSS THE WATERFALL WE COULD SEE AN OLD ROAD AND A TRAIL THAT WENT DOWN TO THE BASE OF THE WATERFALL. MATT TOLD US WE WOULD GET A LITTLE WET BY CROSSING THE CREEK....WELLL THE CREEK WAS A RAGGING CREEK LIKE RIVER. WE DECIDED WE WERENT THAT ADVENTUROUS. 

SO WE DECIDED TO TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER WAY ACROSS THE CREEK.  WE FOUND A CROSS-ABLE SPOT UP STREAM ABOUT A MILE BUT SINCE IT WAS GETTING LATE IN THE DAY WE DECIDED THIS WAS ANOTHER ADVENTURE IN ITS SELF.

AND TURNS OUT IM NOT SUCH A GOOD DRIVER AND THE 4-WHEEL DRIVE DOESNT WORK... MAKING US STUCK! NO PUSHING OR JUMPING ON THE BACK WORKED...ONLY GOOD OLD BACKING UP AND GASSING IT! 

 THE EVIDENCE 

SINCE WE WHERE OUT OF THE TRUCK LOOKING AT THE HOLE MY TIRE MADE I NOTICED SOME CRITTER TRACKS.

THESE TRACKS WERENT JUST ANY TRACKS THEY WHERE ELK AND WOLF! AND THEY LOOKED TO BE ON THE RUN!!

WE WERE BOTH SHOCKED AT HOW BIG THE WOLF PRINT IS

ONCE BACK ON THE ROAD WE STOPPED AT THE FIRST WATERFALL WE PASSED.

AND THIS ONE DIDNT HAVE A CRAZY CREEK TO CROSS JUST A LITTLE WALKING TO THE TOP OF IT.

TESS DOING HER THING.

MY BEAUTIFUL BEST FRIEND AND COUSIN

LOVE YOU

AND THE TOP. IT WAS STILL CRAZY FAST WATER THAT DROPPED OFF THE CLIFF BUT AT LEAST TI WASNT SUCH A LONG WAY DOWN TO SEE IT. 

TESS THEN SPOTTED THIS ROCK ON THE WAY HOME AND COULD NOT RESIST A PICTURE WITH IT.

PRETTY SURE THIS CALF THOUGHT WE WHERE NUTS!

HALF WAY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN IT STARTED TO SNOW.

THEN IT REALLY SNOWED!

IM STILL NOT SURE IF SHE WAS SHOCKED OR EXCITED...

AND JUST LIKE OUR LAST ADVENTURE WE SPOTTED SOME DEER ON THE WAY OUT.

WE BOTH THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD WAIT UNTIL THE WATER WENT DOWN AND WOULD MAKE ANOTHER TRIP OUT THERE. THIS WAS BACK IN APRIL...STILL WAITING FOR ROUND TWO!