Day 8: So Little Time...

Another day of hiking completed but so little time to blog. By the time we've had a hot bath after hiking and a wee adult beverage it's time for dinner, then the night's entertainment, then it's bedtime!

Thursday I stuck with the Hard group for a 13.5m/1800' walk named Ridges and Valleys and that's exactly what we saw. We climbed gently up to open grassy meadows, across a long ridge, down and up along a forest track, and finally several miles thru lovely leafy ancient mossy-covered oak and mixed tree forest, both above and then alongside a creek bed with tumbling waterfalls. Glorious.

     (my Hard group having afternoon tea)

Mom also stuck with her Mediums and her favorite hike leader. Her hike was simply the "Waterfalls", 8m/700'.

(They could enter the cave in behind the waterfall via a slippery stone path)

     (A welcome cold one after a Hard day!)