Devil's Marbleyard

I forgot to ever blog about this, but-- as mentioned-- while I was camping at Holliday Lake with the Young Women, Craig and the Young Men were hiking at a National Park called Devil's Marbleyard!  Similar to us, they had one leader get there early to make the fire and everyone else arrived once it was dark out and had to look for the campfire, which was over a bridge and in the woods!  But they all figured it out eventually, and I know from previous experience that Scott makes excellent hamburgers over a campfire, so they had a good time of it!

Once it was light in the morning, they could actually see the lovely river that they'd been crossing:

And then it was hiking!  See if you can guess where the name for this place comes from:

That, frankly, looks exhausting to hike over, but the boys seemed to really love it!

That's just crazy!

Oh, Ryder

There was a different, slightly less stony path to take back to the campsite, but I'm pretty sure even then going downhill was much more challenging than going up.  They felt very justified stopping for pizza on the way home!

The camera angle is making this slice of pizza look humongous, but Craig says it was only a slight exaggeration-- this place is known for their ginormous pizzas!

Happy boys (and men)!

Anyway, Craig could tell you a lot more about it, but I'm just glad they had a fun time and were safe!  The only casualty was Craig's water bottle, which fell down between rocks and Craig (very wisely) decided it wasn't worth trying to squeeze through them to retrieve it.  

Hooray for hiking and camping!