Steve's sister Heather and here husband Steve, AKA Redneck, were not able to come to Utah when the rest of his family was here earlier in July. They came for a visit last week and brought Sierra's friend Jessie with them. They arrived on Sunday July 27th and stayed for a few days at our house. Then on Wednesday the 30th we all left for a great adventure in the land of Idaho.
On Monday Steve had to work. The rest of us thought it would be a good idea to hike Adams Canyon. We had never done that hike before, but I have seen beautiful pictures on facebook of friends who have. It was a little more strenuous than I thought it would be. And how fun for our guests who are used to breathing at an elevation of 545 ft. to start a hike at an elevation of 4,357 ft. and gain almost 1,200 ft in the process of the hike. It took us a little longer to hike than what it said it would online. Except for Zac, Emily and Tyler who flew through the whole thing and waited for an hour for the rest of us at the waterfall. All in all it was a beautiful hike and we had a mostly fantastic time! My hiking buddy, Addy, pretty much had the same expression in the picture below the whole time. She did not enjoy this challenging hike!
The middle of our pack reached this smaller waterfall and we were ready to collapse in exhaustion. We hadn't see the front or the back of our pack in quite some time. We met a lady and her kids at this spot and asked her how much farther the large waterfall was. She told us it was about 30 minutes farther and that it is a really hard hike the rest of the way. She said they usually only go to this spot and then turn around. A really hard hike??? What was that we had just been doing?
We were all ready to give up, call the small fall good, and head for the nearest air conditioner and couch. As much as I was ready to turn around, I just knew I couldn't let these kids give up after we had come so far and were so close to the goal. I gave the kids a pep talk about how when things are the hardest, that is usually right before the big pay off. I told them that if we turned back now, all that we had already been though would be for naught if we gave up right before the reward. The pep talk seemed to do the trick and we all decided to press forward. This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole hike.
Pressing Forward
Finally! We reached our goal and made it to the big fall! Tyler was there waiting for us. Zac and Emily were no where to be found. Where were they? Scaling the cliff above the fall. If you look closely you can see a head at the top on the left side of the photo to the right of the tree on top of the cliff.
Zac, making his way down.
Redneck and Heather caught up!
Uneven ground makes Zac slightly taller than Tyler! Aubrey decided to climb up this treacherous slope with Emily.
Now we could finally head for home! We all decided it was worth the struggle!
Everyone crashed when we got home. We had an American Ninja Warrior Marathon that lasted the rest of the day and into the night.
Zac and Tyler played the traditional Male Schmid Family Game of All Games.
On Tuesday the Hobbs went downtown to show Jessie Temple Square. I had to stay home for a meeting. Zac had some of his friends over. The Hobbs got home in time for dinner. We hung out at home the rest of the evening. The boys had a battle, there was a lovely rainbow, and we all packed up and got ready for our Idaho adventure that would begin early the next morning.
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