family day.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
guess what we found?

lost river gorge!
it's not just a doo-doo fresh ravine of natural wonderment, either-
...duders,
it's got glacial caves.
and,
even better than that,
it's totally and copletely non-friendly for fatties and lazies.

nice, huh?
you know it.
if you're in any way stout of body,
you will get stuck in these jauns.
forever.
and that's no joke.
check the teleportational hottness:

that's a big chasm of mossy rivery lostness.
i'm just sayin'.
yeah.
so there's all these caves with raging torrents
of watery hydro-thunder hangin' out.
in the dark.
under tons of thick, heavy, rocky nature.

every so many feet the big cracked-up boulders surround
pools and potholes made by sedimentary debris in the water,
abrading the slabs of stone in every direction.
it's all still really happening,
just like it did a flippin' bazillion years ago.
let me also say, for the record,
that it felt good to be a spindly stick-man today.
we saw all the secret insides of all the secret tunnels.
that's some nutrient-rich hard-style action. ninjas.
and once we bounced out and away from the gloomy gorge,
we hit up an even gloomier spot,
in broad sunny daylight:

boise rock.
it's an enormous glacial irregularity,
where a dude by the name of thomas boise rocked out
with the loudest, freshest, hardness of some epic survivalism.
uh-huh.
during an icy blizzard back in the olden days of manly nordic fury,
he endured the savage stormswept winter action
by first killing, and then skinning,
and finally wrapping himself in said skin of,
his trusty horse,
all whilst weathering the inclemency from under the g-darn rock,
until duders sledded out looking for him the next day.
he lived, duders,
but they had to axe-warrior chop the frozen
horse-hide mummy wraps off of him.
tougher than you are.
that's what that is.
believe it.
***********
family day, redux.
another 'nother magical moment of
togetherness and active particpation
in the northern extremes of the woodsly goodness.
dear red spikes,
our day was better than yours.
1-0.
victory;
never quiet, never soft.....