Hiking through the Canyon

We've had so much snow lately that we all wanted to take a hike through the local canyon on Saturday. Well, okay...Clint & i wanted to go for a hike, and we told the kids we'd take them swimming at the local indoor pool if they hiked first. So we hiked until we were out of the sunlight (that means we hiked for about 15 minutes, until the mountains began shading the sun). Then we had a little picnic on the benches beside the river, hiked back to the car & took off to go swimming.
It was beautiful, though. And here are a couple more pictures to prove it (Autumn was getting pretty cold by the time we took the last one):