Farmington Canyon

The first of June we decided to go hiking up Farmington Canyon to the waterfall. It ended up being farther then we thought, but there was a lot of fun things to see and do along the way. We packed a picnic lunch and headed up. There were old, rusted cars along the trail and the boys loved to explore them. There were also some smaller waterfalls that we stopped at on our way to the big one. We had to ask a few people directions to the big waterfall because the trail was a little confusing. Once we got there we did something that looking back now, we realize probably wasn't the smartest. It was a pretty steep hill to get down to the bottom of the waterfall, but we felt okay going down. We got on our stomachs and crawled down backwards, helping the boys along the way. Sawyer was crying the whole time because he was in the carrier and was scared. Some people came along and I'm sure they wondered what the heck we were doing, but we made it down okay. The waterfall was really beautiful, but probably not worth the risk. We stayed there for just a little bit because there really wasn't a lot of room to sit and then climbed back up a different way and headed back to the car. It was really fun to take the kids hiking, but we definitely realized it was a little too long for them on the hike back. We heard about it the whole way. I took Sawyer on my back and Brad had to carry Ryker. Cooper was awesome and did it by himself. Maybe we will wait until they are a bit older to do it again.