I have been planning a hike with the kids from Wequiock Falls to the bottom of the creek for while now. My friend, Eric Heimerman, and I have been talking about this, as we tried a couple of years ago, and today was our chance.
Eric had the great idea of leaving our bikes at the bottom of the trip, so that we only had to go one way, increasing our chances of actually making it. The kids get kind of cranky, and rightly so; there are no paths, so scratches and itches and sliding in the mud abound. This, though, I think is good for a kid with much of their head looking into a screen and being bombarded with images and messages.
We finished the trip down to Nicolet Drive. Perhaps next time we will make it to the Bay.
We stopped for the 5 of us to pose.
Donnie was far ahead of us much of the trip. Here he pauses to wait for us to catch up.
During the middle of the trip, we only had vague ideas of how far we were into it.
With so many downed trees and branches from huge trees, there were also bridges to use to pass over the creek. Many times these trees also provided blockages to our hike.
There were many logs to cross as we searched for the best way to navigate the creek and avoid the deep parts. For me, this was the funnest part to find logs to cross.
We needed to cross and there was no quick way. Eric attempted to swing across on what seemed to be a strong, green branch. It broke. This is the only photo I got of him getting out of the water.
This is the last photo I took before we got to the street where I bikes were waiting for us. Here it was nice and flat and easy to navigate.
We found the carnage of a deer carcass. It was hard to know what happened, but it seemed to be that some wild animal tore this one apart. We almost walked right through it. I kept the skull as a reminder of our trip and a reminder of mortality.
To close this post is a curated photo taken with more care. I was able to get down and focus on the point of our trip, to pay tribute to the beautiful outdoors we were spending time in, the the creek, which was our driving force.
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