Wild Basin Hike

 On Saturday, we headed back up to RMNP to attempt the same hike we had tried a few weeks ago.  This time the weather cooperated long enough for our hike, although it did start to rain on our way back to the car.  The boys love throwing rocks into any body of water - so they were thrilled at the prospect of throwing rocks into a waterfall.

 

 

It was a beautiful day with beautiful scenery.  It sure beat staying in Denver where it was 100 that day - it was 63 in the parking lot on our way out of the park.

Ryan was lucky to not be too close to the edge of this boulder when he threw in his rock - even if he had, Greg was less than a foot behind him to catch him just in case.

 The park rangers told us that there at been 2 bear sightings in the previous hour of our hike - so the boys were pretty nervous about going out - especially Ryan.  We had to assure him that it would be ok and that the bears had already gone on.  We didn't see any bears, just a deer and lots of chipmunks.

 

We had a great time and I'm glad that we are able to take advantage of the weekends in the summer to go up to the mountains together.  The boys love to take a picnic, and if there is water involved, then they really have a blast.