I love days off of school! Doesn't everybody?!?! Well, this week we had Tuesday off from school because it was election day. It was a beautiful day so I decided to go hiking. We went to the next valley over (Paradise Valley) and drove about 34 miles south of Livingston to the trailhead. Paradise Valley is probably the most beautiful place I have ever been. The mountains are huge, sky is wide open, and the fall colors were so vivid in the bright sunlight!!! Plus there are hardly any people in the valley so there are no big buildings or traffic lights... it is awesome. The hike was pretty easy and very well maintained. Oh my gosh, the falls were unbelievable! SO PRETTY! We had lunch at the bottom of the falls and then hiked up and around to the top of the falls were we explored around and climbed some trees:-) Every time I go on a hike around here I wonder why I don't live in a little tree house on top of a mountain because it is so quiet and so gorgeous and relaxing. Unfortunately (or fortunately) we didn't see many animals like I was hoping to (I wanted to see a goat or elk or something!) We did however, see two bald eagles and two huge golden eagles! I had never seen a live golden eagle before so that was cool! I couldn't get a picture of it though, because it was too fast! Moral of the story... hike. Hike all the time!
The three pictures are for you to see how gorgeous this day/hike was! The picture with the bridge was taken from the trail head... I liked the bridge and all the colors! The picture with me is at the falls... So gorgeous! and they are actually a lot taller than they look in the picture! and the last picture is one of the many spectacular views on the way to the falls!
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