7 Falls
and ended up leaving about like, close to 10 PM. It took us 2 hours to get up and close to 2 hours back down. However, we hiked UP to 7 falls which was supposed to be filled with waterfalls and water, but as it turns out I guess this summer was pretty brutal, so it was completely dry when we got there. We turned back immediately out of "WHAT THE FLYING FUCK ARE WE OUT HERE FOR THEN". And at this time it was about 8PM, a little after, we still had a little light. So about ten minutes later we are walking down the treacherous path back down towards the riverbed, and it starts fucking raining.
For anyone that doesn't know about 7 Falls, it is located inside a canyon. There are mountain lion warnings, bear warnings, and most importantly, flash flood warnings posted everywhere, telling people to not hike the trail in the rain. WELL GUESS WHAT WE HAD TO DO? THAT'S RIGHT, HIKE THAT SHIT IN THE RAIN. We moved our asses extremely quickly and kept an ear out for roaring water, cause that meant we were screwed.
Keep in mind that my buddies Kevin and Victor were with me and they had hiked the trail before (pretty sure kevin has anyway) and I have not at all. So they had to deal with me being a slow ass pansy on the way down.
During the way down I was stressing and freaking out so much I wanted to just start crying. My body was on point though as if I got stuff in my eye or whatever my eyes would immediately tear up to clear that shit outta there so I could keep watching the rocks coming up under my feet so I didn't fall and smash my head open so I'm grateful for that haha. But yeah it was... an extremely stressful experience.
Also on the way down I hurt my ankle (sprained my right ankle but it's okay now) and I slipped once, almost fell off a cliff to my death and hurt my knee in that fall. Fortunately the adrenaline rush I had going down the mountain made it so I didn't feel my knee pain the rest of the way down which was nice. I fell 2 more times on slippery rocks because of the rain and lolnogripshoes. I should really buy some hiking boots but they'd be like 200 dollars for my shoe size lol (18). So yeah my ankle made me reaaaally slow, a lot slower than they would have liked but... we made it out anyway.
Anyway, so now my knee hurts a lot, ankle is fine for the most part, but we cheated death! YAY! And now I can tell people I hiked 7 falls trail! Would I do it again? Maybe a year down the line during the daytime instead of close to night time. Or sooner, I dunno. Not doing any hiking with my knee like this though.
But I would do it again at nighttime too, just y'know... when it's not raining. The bugs and shit that are out during the day there are pretty dangerous, or so I was told. And there were a fuckton of flies buzzing around me and I HATE hearing that buzzing noise next to my ears, it freaks me out, which is why I mention I would do it again at nighttime for the trail back. If it wasn't for the rain it would have been peaceful. I took some video I may or may not upload but unfortunately I didn't take any video of the way back, so :[ NO DRAMATICS.
Thanks for reading guys.
For anyone that doesn't know about 7 Falls, it is located inside a canyon. There are mountain lion warnings, bear warnings, and most importantly, flash flood warnings posted everywhere, telling people to not hike the trail in the rain. WELL GUESS WHAT WE HAD TO DO? THAT'S RIGHT, HIKE THAT SHIT IN THE RAIN. We moved our asses extremely quickly and kept an ear out for roaring water, cause that meant we were screwed.
Keep in mind that my buddies Kevin and Victor were with me and they had hiked the trail before (pretty sure kevin has anyway) and I have not at all. So they had to deal with me being a slow ass pansy on the way down.
During the way down I was stressing and freaking out so much I wanted to just start crying. My body was on point though as if I got stuff in my eye or whatever my eyes would immediately tear up to clear that shit outta there so I could keep watching the rocks coming up under my feet so I didn't fall and smash my head open so I'm grateful for that haha. But yeah it was... an extremely stressful experience.
Also on the way down I hurt my ankle (sprained my right ankle but it's okay now) and I slipped once, almost fell off a cliff to my death and hurt my knee in that fall. Fortunately the adrenaline rush I had going down the mountain made it so I didn't feel my knee pain the rest of the way down which was nice. I fell 2 more times on slippery rocks because of the rain and lolnogripshoes. I should really buy some hiking boots but they'd be like 200 dollars for my shoe size lol (18). So yeah my ankle made me reaaaally slow, a lot slower than they would have liked but... we made it out anyway.
Anyway, so now my knee hurts a lot, ankle is fine for the most part, but we cheated death! YAY! And now I can tell people I hiked 7 falls trail! Would I do it again? Maybe a year down the line during the daytime instead of close to night time. Or sooner, I dunno. Not doing any hiking with my knee like this though.
But I would do it again at nighttime too, just y'know... when it's not raining. The bugs and shit that are out during the day there are pretty dangerous, or so I was told. And there were a fuckton of flies buzzing around me and I HATE hearing that buzzing noise next to my ears, it freaks me out, which is why I mention I would do it again at nighttime for the trail back. If it wasn't for the rain it would have been peaceful. I took some video I may or may not upload but unfortunately I didn't take any video of the way back, so :[ NO DRAMATICS.
Thanks for reading guys.
