The trail is short and easy. My 2-year-old walked about half of it on her own this time.
She giggled over being, "left in the dust" by Jarrod and Erica, who are obviously much faster and have more stamina than she does. When she got tired of walking, there were plenty of sets of arms to carry her.
When we got to the end of the trail, it was bone dry. Unfortunate for our hopes of seeing a waterfall, but cool because we were able to easily get further back into the crevaces. Here's what it looks like relatively dry....
The waterfall would normally be immediately to my children's right. When there's water, it pools in a basin area right behind them, and at the base of the rocks they climbed to get up there.
This picture was taken almost three years ago. The waterfall isn't visible from this picture. It's behind the big rock my daughter is leaning on to climb.
Again, this area today was completely dry. Much easier to hike into than when it's filled with water!
You can see the very tiny waterfall here. I don't know if it ever gets bigger because we've only seen it dry and like this.
And THAT is the pool of water at the base of the rocks my children were climbing, when the waterfall has been bringing water into the area. As my son can attest after he slipped off the rocks he was climbing on, it is COLD.
We really like this hike because it's an easy one for the whole family.
We have seen it to where the water is flowing down the steps that you climb up to get to that point...it was a lot of water! I always try to go after a rain. :) I haven't seen it as dry as you have seen it!!
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