This trip to the park was, shall we say eventful? We discovered that we really had done things backwards. We should have seen Castle house on Saturday & Spruce Tree house on Wednesday. Who knew. Anyway because we were unable to get to the Castle house on Wednesday we decided to go see the petroglyphs at Spruce Tree house as we didn't get to see them on Saturday. I thought that it was a quick little jaunt around the bend from the ruins. Boy was I wrong.
We got there about 40 minutes before closing and started out on the hike. By the time 6:30 rolled around and we still hadn't reached the petroglyphs we turned around to go back. The whole time I was worried that they would lock us in, so I introduced Saree to echos. It was really cute. She can't quite say hello, she says he-ho. Anyway when we got back and started up the path to entrance we were met by 2 park rangers who spent the next 10 minutes chastizing us because we were supposed to 1) check with a ranger before we left on the hike 2) signed the log & 3) taken water with us. Who knew.
Anyway the hike was a little hairy in places, there were tiny narrow little stairs we had to go down, picture 2, and a narrow crevice we had to go through, picture 1. Jim and I would like to go back but without the girls because it would have been better not having to worry about falling and hurting them, not to mention that the squeeze was tight enought without another person on your back.
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Glad to see you out and about.
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