Lava Caves & Yellow Knolls

This weeks' get out times were few, but we tried...despite the windy conditions.  One evening we decided to check out the Lava Caves at Snow Canyon.  We parked at the north entrance and then rode down to the trail head to the caves.  I nearly blew off my bike on the way down.  We crawled into the caves some, but decided against going in deep since it was getting late and because of the drop.  Needed to have a rope along to be safe.  Some of the views were really beautiful at sunset.  Riding out uphill proved to be close to impossible in the wind.  Finally, I just got off and pushed rather than get knocked over.  Not the best conditions to be out, but we tried.

Friday after work we decided it was again, too windy to go camping, but we at least wanted to go for a walk.  We drove up the Turkey Road and came to a trail head for a trail we had never done - Yellow Knolls.  We decided it was worth doing.  It ended up being a very nice and beautiful surprise.  We found a really cool 30-foot waterfall (no water right now) that we looked at from the top and later climbed up it from the bottom.  Very hard to get a good picture of the whole thing.  We also found parts of what looked like an old contraption for damming up some water.  Lots of beautiful, Snow Canyon type rock formations.  Loved it and the wind even died down for some of it!  

The top right picture is looking down the waterfall.