There is not a better word that could be used to explain our day yesterday. We started our morning by driving over to the Teton Valley area to take a hike up to the Darby Wind Cave. It is a three mile hike to get to the canyon with an 1800 foot elevation gain. Annie enjoyed riding on her dad's back as she gathered sticks and flowers from the side of the trail.
I think we were about three-fourths of the way there at this point. If you look in the background of the picture (upper left), you can see the wind cave that we were hiking to. Annie was alert and awake for the whole hike up. She kept us moving by talking to us and singing her repetitive songs :)
After several switch-backs and steep climbs, we made it!
It is such an exhilarating feeling when you make it to the top.
There was also a beautiful waterfall that sits right below the cave.
We stayed at the top for a while to take in our surroundings and have a quick snack. Then we made our way down. It only took us about an hour to hike the three miles back down to the bottom and Annie slept the whole way. After we made it to the car, we drove over to Victor to get some delicious huckleberry malts for the ride home. Such a great day!
