The Sacred Rim

I dragged John on a “short” hike today.  We wanted to do just a 3-4 mile hike and John found one out of  Elkhart Park and it was only 4 mile round trip. The directions said the turn off to the Sacred Rim trail was unmarked but a well traveled trail that we wouldn’t miss.  Well we missed it!  We walked almost a mile before we realized that we had to have passed it so we turned around.

It was a lovely forest trail where I enjoyed the fields of wildflowers and the gurgling stream.  When we reached the Sacred Rim we were tired of climbing,  hungry for lunch and grouchy.  But the spectacular view changed all that!  Also a cute chipmunk kept begging for crumbs.  The hike back down seemed much shorter.  This short hike turned into a 7 mile jaunt.