Journey and I went up to visit our old haunt, Horsetail Falls. We went there last year together. Heck, I go there every year.
With the government shutdown, I should not have to pay for parking. Who is going to come check your car? A furloughed ranger? I don’t think so. Yet when I arrived at the trailhead every other car in the parking lot had paid for parking. What the hey? Do they not know there is a shutdown? Now I wondered if I should pay. Should I pay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble. If I pay it will be double. Honestly I did not feel like paying for parking today. If there is going to be a stupid government shutdown then I should get some benefit out of it. That is my logic. I did not pay. (and I did not get a ticket).
If you have done this hike you know there is a little bit of scrambling on steep, slick, granite rock. Journey did very awesome on this. I thought she was going to slip and slide a couple times, but no. She is an expert at the rock scrambling now.
By the time we arrived at the waterfall we were the last ones on the mountain. We went to a couple different spots for photos. I had an idea for something a bit different that I wanted but it did not pan out so here is your Horsetail Falls shot for the year. It actually is a bit different from my previous photos. Journey ate her snack and we hiked down, arriving back at the car at sunset. It was a lovely evening in Eldorado National Forest.
