Garden of the Gods & Seven Falls
Most of my favorite vacation spots seem to be about natural wonders, and Colorado is just chock full of them. The red rocks in the Garden of the Gods are marvelous (see my photos). We walked around the park. I got a note from a friend that she used to use the park trails as her running trails when she used to live out here. How lucky!
There were rock climbers too. Although after having climbed on granite the day before I was amazed that these people would want to trust the very soft sandstone for climbing. Clearly they were both more experienced and more trusting than I am.
After GotG, we headed to see Seven Falls (still in Colorado Springs). Seven Falls is the 2nd highest waterfall in the U.S. The highest being Yosemite Falls which we saw a few years ago. It's acutally seven small falls one after the other to create one very high one. The coolest thing about this one was the stairs. We've seen a lot of waterfalls over the years, and each time we get to do something a little different. At Niagra Falls, we took the Maid of the Mist boat and got sprayed, at Cucumber Falls in PA, the kids walked behind the falls, in Yosemite they hiked right up to the base and played in the water, here was got to take stairs the entire length of the falls to the top. That's what I said - stairs - 224 of them. But worth every step.
There were rock climbers too. Although after having climbed on granite the day before I was amazed that these people would want to trust the very soft sandstone for climbing. Clearly they were both more experienced and more trusting than I am.
After GotG, we headed to see Seven Falls (still in Colorado Springs). Seven Falls is the 2nd highest waterfall in the U.S. The highest being Yosemite Falls which we saw a few years ago. It's acutally seven small falls one after the other to create one very high one. The coolest thing about this one was the stairs. We've seen a lot of waterfalls over the years, and each time we get to do something a little different. At Niagra Falls, we took the Maid of the Mist boat and got sprayed, at Cucumber Falls in PA, the kids walked behind the falls, in Yosemite they hiked right up to the base and played in the water, here was got to take stairs the entire length of the falls to the top. That's what I said - stairs - 224 of them. But worth every step.
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