A Sunday Hike

This is the same hike I did last Sunday, along side Morgan Creek. This time,however, it wasn't raining--just a little sprinkle the first 30 minutes--and so we went a lot further. It actually ended up taking 4 hours and we did around 8 miles.


Aren't those flowers pretty? There's something about purple or yellow flowers that really appeals to me. Sure, white flowers are nice, red ones too--but yellow and purple are my favorites.


This was the sticky point in the hike. We walked along Morgan Creek but occasionally we needed to cross to get to better trails--we did the crossings on top of sewage pipes. They're pretty wide and the footing isn't bad. Usually. On this pipe the water was flowing over it in a few spots and the pipe ended at the concrete thingy--about 6 feet from land. I made it across easily enough but the others were a little wimpy--so I had to go back after taking this picture and we backtracked up a half mile and crossed on an easier pipe. Boring!


This is a pipe a mile downstream of the one shown up above. It was an easy crossing. Dry and not too high or low relative to the water. There's one pipe we crossed that's about 8 feet above the water and my fear of heights was tugging at my brainstem on that crossing. I kid you not.


This is where we started the hike. For a sewer pipe line it was actually quite pretty at points.


And this is a calm section of Morgan Creek. It's normally a lot smaller than this but we've had light to moderate rainfall almost every day for a week so the creek was running a lot higher than usual.