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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DAY YESTERDAY (Photos included)

Stephen and I decided to go for a hike to find these falls called Ammonite Falls. We follow the directions on how to get there and park. It's overcast and sprinkling rain a bit, but we wanted to see these waterfalls regardless of the weather.

We're walking along the trail and Stephen points out some white-yellow, round mushrooms on the ground and asks if I know what they are. I shook my head and he says, "Puffball mushrooms. Step on them" and so I did. This was the result:

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We continue walking and eventually the trail forks. We see an older man riding his horse towards us from the trail on the left, so we figure maybe he went to the falls with his horse. We greet the man and continue on the left-trail, ascending up the mountain. After about 15 minutes of walking, there's a trail that veers off to the left. The online description of how to get to the falls said something like "take a trail that veers right off the trail". Whether that meant "a trail to the right" or it veers "right off the trail", we didn't know. So we took it, and into the woods it went. We spent a good 15-20 minutes walking this trail, and the forest began to subside and we came to a gate and a road.

Wrong way! So we went back and once we got to the main trail, decided we should have probably gone right at the fork. On our way down, we run into Mr.Horse-man again as well as two guys that came out of the woods :f6: I was a little sketchy of them, but they were friendly and it turns out they were just hunting mushrooms. They offered to give us some, and as before I was a bit sketchy, but Stephen's mom hunts mushrooms so he knew what kind they were. They're called chanterelle and are fine for eating. They look like this:

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We asked the guys where the falls were, and they told us we indeed should have gone right at the fork, and that it was about a thirty minute hike from where we currently were.
So back on the correct trail, shortly we find a trail that leads off to the right and decide to see what's down there. There were red canister-like object stuck on poles, and further down there was a sign that said "disc golf trail start" or something. Who plays disc golf in the middle of no where :f6:

So wrong path again. We get back on the main trail and continue walking straight until we see a sign that says "Ammonite Falls". After about 15 more minutes of walking, we finally reach the falls area. The path down to the falls was extremely steep, and there were no real stairs. Thankfully there was a rope to hold on to. Here's a photo of the rope/walkway from the bottom looking up:

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We finally reached the falls! and here's a few photos of such. Kinda wish there was a bit more water flowing, but still totally worth the time it took, though!

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