Today after been picked up from the Yurt by my friend Ben. We went to a place called Box canyon falls which is apparently the place where the world ice climbing festeval gets held every year. I was cool to go and just watch a few people doing some ice climbing which is similar to rock climbing only with ice and u use 2 small pick axes to climb with. We met a guy named Victor from Chili there who was just visiting to do some ice climbing and he explained it a bit more to us. After watching for a bit we went and did a little walk they had there into the little canyon down by the stream which was cool.
After stopping back at the house for lunch we then headed out about an hour away to a place called Black Canyon. Now this is an impressive place and if you ever get the chance I highly recomend going there. We stopped at a few points around it to take in the view before heading to the visitors centre and taking a short trail around one area of the canyon. We were lucky cause even though there was several feet of snow it was fairly compact so we could walk on it ok without the recomended snow shoes that we did not have. There was just one spot of about 10 meters where there wasn't really any trail so we had to wade about knee to waist deep through the snow so that was lots of fun. After walking the trail we watched a little video about the history of the canyon and the guy that got it listed as a national park, so that was cool. The canyon is not as deep as the Grand Canyon but is much steeper and narrower so is just as cool to look at.
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