The Pinnacles

I went to the Pinnacles today after church with a couple friends (Seth and Jordan). I had never been, so it was really great to visit and see what it was like. I loved it! It's really a fantastic place and I can't wait to go back. We climbed some sweet rocks and threw stones into the river below... always a fun activity. We then went down to explore the riverbeds and look for crawdads. We trekked our way up the river - thankfully it was a nice day and not cool out, for the water was kind of chilly - but never found anything. Soon enough we ended up deciding to construct a dam. I don't know how or why, it just sort of happened.

... Let me tell you, it was the sweetest dam ever...

It didn't completely stop up the river or anything, but it looked way cool and was fun to build! We kept moving upstream and didn't really see anything that great or anything. But it was still beautiful. We decided to turn back and were trekking in and out of the river. At one point we were walking in the water and just looking around. It wasn't long before Jordan pointed out to Seth and I a snake lounging on a branch that extended over the water. It was pretty large, but we decided to get up and out of the water to get a closer look. Upon closer inspection, we could see that it was a rattlesnake! The boys had picked up a couple large rocks (boys will be boys) and proceeded to throw them at the snake. I think it was Jordan's rock that hit the snake and knocked it off the branch. Well that was cruel, yes, but it was kind of cool at the same time... I know, I'm horrible. But after that, we were freaked out that it had survived and would somehow bite us. Irrational, perhaps, but possible in our minds at the time. We decided to brave it and keep wading downstream.

We were just fine, ha.

We later saw a small, bright orange snake on a rock we were walking up on. Jordan poked it with a stick and flung it into the water and we kept moving forward and walked back into the water, but the snake was swimming back to its original spot, where I was still near; it was coming back to get me! Haaa ok not really. But seriously. We had quite the adventure. We soon exited into the woods and got onto a pathway that led us back to the trail head. Such a fun day. Man. The entire weekend has been really great. The weekend has technically finished today for me, because we start our finals tomorrow. Anyway, it was a great cap to the school year's weekends and whatnot. Fabulous.

PS, We're going to go back to the Pinnacles next fall and see if our dam is still in place.

: )