Liking Mucho Hiking! A blog about our mucho hikes.

 Rating: 🌲🌲🌲🌲 Length: 3.4 miles (or thereabouts). Elevation gain: 383 feet This is us at the beginning of the hike. As you can see, everyone looks pretty happy and healthy. It stayed that way through the hike! For the win! I gave it four stars with Claire in mind. In the middle of this hike were some smelly hot pots! And, that about gagged Claire. So, four pine trees.  The truth is: I have never hiked in Yellowstone until this trip. And, I have visited Yellowstone numerous times. I think I will make it a tradition. It was a great time, minus a few heart stopping moments on cliff edges. (I don't do heights well.) We saw beautiful lakes, random deer, and buffalo from afar. Picturesque.  The seven Wetzels and one Leak headed off down the trail after viewing the beautiful waterfall, as seen above. The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is truly breathtaking. Literally.  The beautiful walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. And, it is pretty deep. Turns out.  Some of the Wetzel c

 Rating: 🌲🌲🌲 Distance, in theory - 9.8 miles. Elevation gain: 2,312 ft.  This was the hike that wasn't successful. You will note that this hike only gets 3 pine trees out of five. The main reason for that is we never did make it to the lakes. Sigh. We lost the trail and never made it to the planned destination. I was annoyed, so I only gave it a 3 tree rating. But, there was a silver lining. This inspired Leti to get the alltrails.com pro feature, which allows you to download the map on your phone. We have used the feature many times on our hikes since that time. So, maybe it was all for the best. Maybe this hike gets a 3.25 trees.   This hike, despite the lack of a trail, was very pretty. And hot. Not a lot of shade going on here. Do this hike on a cooler day. Leti and I set out after viewing Russ Urry's cabin foundation. So, we hiked right in the heat of the day. There were a gazillion people at Smith and Morehouse, but luckily not a lot on the trail. For the win!  For as