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What a cool place, these falls are very powerful and extremely beautiful. Someone we passed on the trail was surprised we wouldn't be kayaking them with our very novice gear. Amazing hike nonetheless and a great scene.

Did a little bit of spelunking in pole creek caves. They were extremely cool and there were so many small cavers as well as large open rooms with a water pool and some underwater caves at the end. It was pretty crazy when we were deep into the cave and shut the lights out, no once of light and it was a cool feeling. The water was freezing as well and I had to piggy back Allie across some of the small ponds.

Did a 8.5 mile, 3000 ft elevation gain hike to an alpine lake in the Grand Tetons National Park. It was a very hard but very worth it hike, seeing the rivers and the mountain peaks and of course the amazing lakes at the top.

Went back to KC for the weekend. Took the family this time. Spent most of our time eating BBQ: Jack Stack and Joes were the favorites, with Q39 as a close runner up, from burnt ends and rocketpig sammies to BBQ poutine. Went to the game of course and watched the Chiefs spank the Rams. Good game with good fans and teams. Got to also see some church sites and war museums and that was also really cool to see.

The black sand beach was incredible, worth the hassle of getting permits and planning it all out. The black sand was extremely unique and more than I expected it to be, especially in contrast to the bright blue water. Would highly recommend to anyone going to Maui as a must.

One of the coolest trails I have ever hiked, out of this world. Started off with a really dense and cool bamboo forest and moved into a series of river crossings and waterfalls and pools.

Even though we got skunked on the upper half of the national park and got completely rained out and were not able to see anything on the volcano side of things we got to visit it on the coastal section for a huge waterfall and another great trail through the jungle.

The road to Hana is a long stretch of road along the coast, with hundreds of tight corners and nearly as many waterfalls. One of the sketchiest roads I have ever driven but it was so worth it because the scenery was absolutely stunning, coastal views and waterfalls were along the whole road, I took some pictures of a few of them but didn't even get close to capturing all of them.

This may have been my favorite place from the entire trip to Maui, the red sand against the turquoise water was incredible, we got lucky to and got it to ourselves for lots of the time. Had the chance to swim in it as well and that was awesome!

There must be over a hundred beaches on Maui and we had the chance to hit up a lot of them. Some of them are better than others, of course the red sand and black sand beaches were awesome but we are talking about classics here. Sitting on the fine sand and enjoying the sun was great no matter which beach it was. Makena beach was cool, Big beach was also amazing and riding the huge waves were a blast. Baldwin beach was massive and the first we went to. There were a few different beaches we just visited enough for a quick walk or sunset watching, Kapalua and Wailea beaches made good for that. I do think that Kaanapali beach was overall our favorite and we spent a lot of time there.

Spent the weekend doing plenty of walking around red rocks and looking at bunches of rock arches. We spent Friday and Saturday nights in some pretty swanky hotels (the breakfast in the one was straight fire). We hiked about 20 miles of trails all throughout the park, Allie's favorite arch was delicate and I think mine was too. We did that trail at the perfect time and didn't have many people around the arch which is uncommon. Double Arch, Turret Arch, Landscape and Double O Arch were also some of our favorites. Balanced rock was also pretty crazy. The whole park was really impressive and it made for an awesome weekend. Hit up some pretty good BBQ on the way home and called it a day and drove home, Moab is a cool little town and now we can check Arches off our NP map.

Take away from this trip, high elevation and thin air does NOT play around. Started the weekend with a quick and easy 6 mile hike but even that was pretty serious going from 9000ft to about 12000ft. Pikes Peak was next and it was a monster, it was 7 miles and 4400ft of elevation gain one way. The summit was at 14115ft and it was a crazy hike. Started the hike around 10 in shorts and a T-shirt, hours later I was bundled up in a coat, pants, and had to strap on the snowshoes. The hike itself was steep and it kicked my butt. I had to use the help at the very end to get up the final push to the summit but I count it as my first 14er even though I needed a bit of assistance. Saw a handful of creek crossings, beautiful peaks a few waterfalls and so much incredible scenery, it was a solid weekend and my calves and lungs hurt equally as much.