Hike to White Rock and Sand Cave

A few Saturdays ago, we finally decided to go on a legitimate hike, one that would take us most of the day. We had found a decent hiking backpack for cheap on craigslist a few days before and were ready to try it out. We decided on a hike up to the Sand Cave just 15 minutes drive up the freeway. Originally we thought it would be about 2.5 mi one way but when we got there, for some reason the map online and the one at the trail didn't quite match up and it actually said 4.5 mi. one way or something. Whaa? OH WELL. We are here. and have nothing else planned for the day so we might as well. Haha! While we were up there, we decided we better stop by White Rock which was just a mile detour from Sand Cave and we were glad we did! The view was awesome! The entire hike took about 5 hours. We took about 45 minutes for lunch somewhere in there while we were at Sand Cave. Ivy actually did pretty well. She never whined about being in the backpack or anything. In fact, for the first couple hours she pretty much talked (or babbled) our ears off while we were hiking. Guess she was just enjoying the ride and being outside for so long. It got pretty funny at times.. Anyways, here are some pics from our day.

All strapped in and ready to go!

Probably my favorite pic of the day. I love her face haha:

The fork in the path to either go to Sand Cave or White Rock.. We went to White Rock first, then took a different path on the backside of the mountain to Sand Cave afterwards:

Yes we were wearing our BYU getup. It just so happened to be game day and both of us pulled out this same shirt. lol.. Guess we gotta represent!

Finally reached Sand Cave a while later.. I wasn't sure what we were going to find when we got there. I was thinking maybe a cave that was originally sand, or with sandy walls or something but it turns out, it's this huge cave (or rock, I'd say) covering this gigantic pile of sand. A cave with sand in it. Sand Cave. Got it..

I'm not sure you can tell the proportion from the pics but we were pretty far up there and only about a third of the way up. In other words, this place was huge. Super cool:

And here's Ivy after a good lunch and a diaper change. She was out like a light within the first 15 minutes of hiking back down. After her catnap she was back to babbling our ears off for the rest of the way down. That girl cracks me up.

Yay for a fun day! I'd like to do that hike again some day but considering neither of us could walk normally for the next three days, we kinda want to wait a little while. Maybe do a few easy hikes before jumping into that one again. haha! It really was fun though, even if it was hard. So worth it.