November 23, 2012...I had never heard of Donut Falls until John told me about this hike. It is such a beautiful hike! We invited Ted and Steph to come with us. All of them had done the hike before. I was the only one that was a newbie at it. It was AMAZING! There was so much snow, they had you park at one location and walk to the trail head. The snow was pretty packed, so it wasn't hard to walk on. It isn't a long hike once you get to the trail head. It is a very beautiful waterfall! It was fun having Ted and Steph there to chat with. On the way up we stopped at the creek crossing and took some fun pictures. When we got going again, John came up to me and showed me a rock. He found a heart-shaped rock for "adventure."
It was so cute that he was thinking about that as we were hiking. There was snow everywhere, so I didn't even think about it. The creek would have been the only place that we could have found one...and John did find one very easily. I thought that was so sweet! Once we got to the falls, the ground was super slippery. John, Ted and I started up the falls to see the upper falls, where they have a little cave. I chickened out because they shoes were just running shoes and had no traction at all. I kept slipping and I we were climbing the side of the waterfall. I didn't want to fall into the waterfall. Ted and John kept climbing and they went to the top and then came down. I got scared, so Ted went in front of me and John went behind me coming down. Ted got a little crazy and decided to "slide" down.
He started sliding, lost control and fell into the waterfall. He fell all the way on his bum and his gun on his hip got wet. Ted is very tall, so his fall wasn't as bad as it could have been. With him being in front of me, it freaked me out. I didn't want to fall into the waterfall as well. It was too cold outside to be wet up all the way down the hike. John went across to the other side and came back up and him and Ted helped me down. I didn't fall, but I was very nervous all the way down. It really was such a beautiful waterfall and beautiful hike in all the white snow with the amazing ice that had formed from the waterfall.
On the way back down I was walking in front of John and there was one spot where I literally fell completely backwards. John jumped forward, and held out his arms and caught me. It was like one of those fairytale catches. We were all laughing so hard. I called him my hero the rest of the hike.
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