This beautiful fall morning, Kim and I ventured out to conquer Adams Canyon. I have heard so many wonderful things about this hike, and was excited to finally get an opportunity to go.
Adams Canyon is a popular hike into the canyon, through the forest and up to a 40 foot waterfall. It is a well traveled hike, and pretty much everyone in Layton Utah has climbed Adams Canyon at least once. The hike is 3.8 miles round-trip, and is fairly steep. The hike through the canyon is beautiful. Pops of fall colors were scattered along the mountain. The river runs along the trail which you follow up crossing over on the old rickety bridge, NOT the beautiful maintained bridge. The hike begins with a quick elevation gain of 800 feet, climbing to a 1,420 gain when the trailhead meets the waterfall at your final destination.
We were grateful that others love this hike, so that when we had our first possible wrong turn, (at the first bridge) we could rely on a phone call to Jerry (Kim's husband), and those traveling on the trail, to keep us moving in the right direction.
The 40 foot, cascading waterfall at the end of the trail is definitely worth the hike. It is stunning, and made me feel as if I was back in Hawaii hiking. Ok, maybe not that spectacular, but it was beautiful!
On the way down the trail we decided to take a short cut over the boulders, rather than following the trail behind them. Slippery feet from the waterfall, and difficult terrain made that a not-so-good choice. I was grateful that when I slipped and fell it was a very short distance before I landed on a small ledge.
We met some fellow youngster hikers on our way back. We talked with them for awhile, and followed them down the trail. We were surprised when we talking and laughing and saw them across the river waving at us. We had missed crossing over bridge, and had to hike back up to get back on the trail. Most people consider this trail fairly straight forward hike, but I think not much is straight forward when we hike together:).
This was definitely one of my favorite hikes of the season!
1 comments:
I wanna go there. That hike reminded me of Pittsburgh with the bridge and the waterfalls. Can't wait to try it.
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