Cascade Springs

Dallas and I haven't really tried out a lot of the hikes around here. Today we decided to remedy that! We figured Alpine Loop was a good place to start. Once we got there I realized I'd actually been here before, but I'd never realized it because I'd always just followed friends or families on adventures. I rarely had to be the one to plan them...but now, planning adventures depends on us!

I was concerned because friends who went up last week or prior said many of the leaves are already gone. They were right, but it was still beautiful! The weather was perfect and we loved getting to enjoy this day with Emma. This is her first fall and it is so exciting getting to share this beautiful earth with her!

Here are some pictures of our afternoon up Alpine Loop:

At Deer Creek Reservoir Viewpoint. We didn't see any reservoir...

Just getting started on our little walk - Emma's pumped!

SO excited to finally go on a hike in the mountains!

She's thinking about something brilliant...I know it because I stick
out my tongue too when I'm thinking great thoughts :)

About 50 yards down the trail... Don't worry, Dallas didn't
let me keep taking pictures as often as I wanted

Happy baby with her daddy

Emma's been doing this thing lately where she throws herself horizontal
so she can get a different view of things. Or at least that's our hypothesis.
Whatever the reason, she is super cute when she does it. I tried to catch her
doing it on camera, but I am too slow! No worries, I'll try again soon :)

Here she is part way down...

We loved all the bridges - the springs truly are beautiful! Unfortunately
we have some crazy shadows on our face, but I still like the pics  :)

Another bridge shot

Oh hey, Emma! She also loves patting all materials. Here she is
doing some QC (quality checking) on the solidarity of the trail's signs.
She seemed pretty pleased with it so it must have passed inspection :)

It's always great looking behind me and seeing these two!

Me and some beautiful cascading water

And now, a whole slew of selfies! 

We love life!

Hasta luego! That's the end of the trip!


p.s. one other thing I loved about today is that we ALSO got to go rollerblading! I found an excellent rollerblading hill a few weeks ago and have been wanting to go for SO LONG! Today we woke up early and went before Dallas had to leave for his frisbee game, which was at 9 a.m.! I feel like these experience officially qualifies us as legit rollerbladers :)