A Hike on the Boulder River Trail

We managed to get one semi-decent day of weather this weekend so Jason and I continued to do some Half Dome practice.  We hiked the Boulder River Trail with Coda, which is about 8.6 miles roundtrip.  It's a very pretty hike that walks high above the Boulder River (so you can hear the river the entire hike with occassional viewing spots).
Some highlights on this particular hike are the two beautiful waterfalls along the way.  They were definitely a sight to see!!

Our little hiking family at the first and biggest falls

Of course we knew there had to be better views than the one where everyone stopped to take pictures at (where our family photo was taken), so we hiked a little further until we found a little trail down to the river at the base of the falls.  This was a nice place to enjoy lunch, see some wildlife (a little chipmunk type creature that Coda wanted to play with), and just enjoy the quiet scenery.

Jason and Coda at the bottom of the falls

The beautiful river where we ate lunch below the falls

After we filled up our bellies with some yummy Subway, we continued our hike in search of the second falls.  We had to cross a super cute bridge and make a stop for a few photos along the way, and just as we think we have passed the second falls, we come up to another gorgeous waterfall (smaller, but just as pretty)!

The cute little bridge we had to cross

Our photo stop off the trail

The second falls

(we were not able to get down to the bottom of this one)

Jason and Coda at the view point for the second falls

We did not make it to our final destination, which is a campsite on the river, but that was okay because it didn't seem like an impressive destination anyway (the waterfalls seemed like the main attraction for this hike).  At about the time we decided to turn around the weather seemed to be getting a little more stormy looking and my knee was progressively getting more painful, so I think we made a good choice.  Luckily we made it back to our car RAIN FREE!!!