Wild Plum Loop Trail 5-30-2011

My mom has been wanting to check out a hike up past Sierra City for a while. So on Memorial Day we headed up. The hike, the Wild Plum Loop Trail, was a pretty good one. It wasn't breathtakingly beautiful or amazingly spectacular, but it was nice. The weather was a little cool. There was still some snow on the ground. The trail brought us next to a creek several times and there were several pretty cascades and waterfalls. We did have some pretty awesome views of the Sierra Buttes. The mountain behind us in the family picture was a particularly cool thing to look at and it was fun to catch different glimpses of it on the hike. I took a lot of pictures of it (and subsequently cut about 8 of them from this post)

Creative use of clothing

 One of my family's favorite pastimes is rock throwing. There was a river below--actually Haypress Creek.

 We also like throwing snowballs. Although some of us don't like to get hit with snowballs. Meghan looks pretty intent on revenge in this picture:

 We tried to do some fishing, but the water was moving pretty swiftly and it was still pretty cold--no luck.

I was cleaning things up and putting things away after the hike when I picked up Abby's backpack. It felt like it was full of rocks; and sure enough, it was.