Labor Day at Shades State Park

Today we traveled to Shades State Park in Waveland, IN (near Crawfordsville) to do some hiking with others from our church. This was the first time Chris and I went hiking together in Indiana, and we had a lot of fun. The weather was also perfect for a day of hiking - not too hot but sunny. We went on two trails today. The first one went down to Sugar Creek and through Shawnee Canyon by way of a creek bed. The other went to Inspiration Point, Prospect Point, and Silver Cascade Falls. Here are some pix from the day.

On the 1st trail at Sugar Creek

On our way through Shawnee Canyon...Chris on a fallen log

View of the creek bed

Where we came from with some of our group behind us

On the 2nd trail at Inspiration Point

At Prospect Point

Part of the group looking over Prospect Point

At Silver Cascade Falls...This is the bottom of the falls. The rocks have a convex shape here. This picture doesn't even capture how cool this was in person. It would be great to see this after having some rain!

Towards the top of the falls. Chris was being adventurous by venturing to the other side of the water. The cliff behind him was awesome!

Cool rock formations

Here are some more rock formations on the cliff right next to the falls.

Just upstream of the falls

I convinced him to take a picture with me - our backs to the falls.

Who knew there was something this beautiful an hour from Lafayette? We hope to back soon as there were some more trails that we wanted to do but didn't get the chance to today.