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Published: March 3rd 2009
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Where: Uvas Canyon County Park
Intention: surveying S's hiking tolerance & to experience the short duration of later Winter's waterfalls
Outcome: Successful maiden attempt. S did not complain.*yay*
Uvas Canyon county park Trail map Our trail: The Waterfall loop covering Granuja falls, upper falls, basin falls, black rock falls over to the Contour trail over to Alec Canyon trail to the final Triple falls before coming down Alec canyon trail to the parking lot.
Heavy storms & pouring rains made getting out next to impossible for the last one month. If not that, we were occupied with the routine work over the weekend.
We shook ourselves with a "Oh, common lazy bones, move it now!!!"
The weather cleared just for a day. So, we moved it. This was one of the chosen places for after rain hikes.
Ganesh picked up a bay area hike guide from the library & we followed it for a little longer 5 miler RT.
I was a little apprehensive about S sitting in a backpack for a five mile hike, but crazily thought that we would rush through it & be back at the car in a couple hours. Lame! What a shame!
It
took us longer than a couple hours to get across the first mile.
Reason: waterfalls, photo shoots, feeding the little one, adding one more layer here & there to her, all by the end of which we became hungry.
Well! we had never started a hike close to noon. So, there goes our professionalism!
If we were to continue this pace, we would never complete the hike by the end of day.
The trail follows a creek, Swanson creek, which seemed to be in full flow after all this rain. Since the park varies in elevation, Swanson creek falls down a couple of times, maybe by only a few feet, but falls, nevertheless.
The weather was perfect.
After black rock falls, we detoured away from the creek. The weather became hot or we started sweating, thanks to the "Contour" trail that lives up to its name. But little S took a nap & we picked up some miles.
The trail was fairly empty once we climbed up. Most people take the less than 2 mile out & back trail to the waterfalls.
A 5
miler would have been a no-brainer had it not been for the little one. We would not have got a sense of achievement.
But her presence made us feel on the top of the world. By helping her step into nature & hiking early in life, we hope she can pick up faster than us.
Even otherwise, the park itself is an awesome place to hike around in cloudy weather, though the best would be in late winter after the rains when Swanson creek swells up.
We found ourselves home after a hot Quiznos sub.
~travelbuffs
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Awesome photos and narration
Photos are beautiful, hike story naration is awesome. Congrats to S, Meera and Ganesh on their 1st wonderful hike together :) Thanks for sharing!