Camping at Cedar Grove

This last weekend we went on our first camping adventure to the mountains. We have not done this much on our own, we realized as I noticed that I had forgotten some key items and it was a lot more work than when you are in a group. Anyways, we had a lovely campsite in Cedar Grove (near the end of the 180 East), up the cliff from the mighty South Fork of the Kings River. Let me tell you, it was Mighty! We have never seen a river run that hard and be so scary. There is no doubt that if you found yourself in that river at any point, you would die very soon. Here is a picture.
Before we really got to camp, we stopped in Grant Grove to see the famous General Grant tree, the third largest in the world. We had a great time wandering through the forest and big holy trees. This is us in front of the General Grant.Caleb insisted on taking many pictures on this bench, with mom, dad, mom and dad, just Caleb....



Daddy and Caleb in a dead, downed tree, he loved going through it!
Caleb was very good for the car ride which made us very happy parents!
The view from Grant Grove to Cedar Grove.
After enjoying our sight-seeing morning and making camp we just kinda wandered around that , getting our bearings and trying desperately to get Caleb to take a nap. He finally did in the car and so we parked and looked at this view.

The next day we had decided to leave early for a hike since it was going to be so hot and I just don't do well in the heat. We took off for an easy, 2 mile, flat hike to Bubbs Creek:) but when we got there in just 40 minutes, we decided we couldn't stop. However, immediately upon heading up the next trail to Mist Falls, we hit a roadblock

What were we to do? We had just made the decision to keep going, so we made our way up and around, which we had to do for about 200 yards. Once we hit the trail out from under water we were good to go and made amazing time to our destination.along the waythe destination - Mist Fallsthe Rattlesnakeour hiking self-portrait, my favorite:)
and, a classicCongratulations if you made it this far, just wanted to be thorough:)