Showing posts with label Rock Canyon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock Canyon. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Rocky Mountain Hike

Hello! This is Onion Ring and my second post. I am probably going to make a few mistakes so just ignore them. Last week our family went on a hike up Rock Canyon.





Recently my brother Buttermilk Sky and I, have been getting into The Lord of the Rings. Our family likes to name things and so it follows to reason that many of the things that we saw, we named them from things in Lord of the Rings. This mountain we named Caradhras.



When we find something we think is cool we either name it something we've heard or make up a name. This is Riverrock



We came up to a large stone formation on the side of the road. Buttermilk went closer and discovered that the side was like a stair. We started climbing. We got fairly far before mom called us back. We named it Cirith Ungol which was the winding stair up into the lair of Shelob.





Here are all of us in a convenient indent in the rock furthur on.





We also climbed up into this place. We named it the Entrance to Moria because in the book there are two trees like gateposts standing on either side of the door like here. You can't really see the one on the right but you can see the branches of the one on the left.



We came to this rock that we had come to the last time we had visited and named it Amon Hen, the Mount of Sight.





We found the remains of some old car in the dried up riverbed right on the side of the road. If anyone knows what it is please comment.













The goal of our hike was to come to an old drinking fountain. We named it the Mirror of Galadriel.









Eggs found this staff on the side of the road on the way back and has it to this day.









On the way back it was cold and we warmed up on Amon Hen.

















It was a fun hike.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Hiking Rock Canyon

I guess it's been a while since we have hiked Rock Canyon because I can't find any other posts on this blog about it. Which is surprising because it is one of my favorite hikes. I love the fantastic rock formations and cliffs. Maybe I felt discouraged the last time we went because we only made it to the green gate (which is barely into the canyon) before Brandon and I succumbed to the whining and crying and turned around.



This time I think we may have made it a mile in--possibly a mile and a half--thanks to the cousins and Aunt Kristi and Uncle JP who came along. Having friends to talk and play with took the boys' minds off of the fact that they were actually exerting their bodies.















In fact, they were having such a great time that they didn't even want to turn around to head home. The setting of the sun was the only reason we did. Maybe someday we will make it the entire six miles to the end of the trail (it ends at a campground). A future backpacking trip perhaps?















I always feel peaceful awe and amazement in Rock Canyon. These pictures don't do it justice. Sometimes it's a pretty neat experience to feel so small.