This is the fifth in a series of posts called Summer Rocks! that chronicle our adventures in hiking this summer. Why Summer Rocks!? Because my kids were so lucky this summer to get outside and see so many beautiful things, and it seemed that everywhere we hiked, there were huge rocks for the kids to climb on and beautiful sites to see.
I posted about our family hikes up at Golden Gate Canyon State Park here and here. Go check them out!
I posted about our Summer Rocks! Part I hike to the Palmer Lake Reservoirs here.
I posted about our Summer Rocks! Part II hike to Four Mile Canyon here.
I posted about our Summer Rocks! Part III hike to Glen Eyrie here.
I posted about our Summer Rocks! Part IV hike to the top of Hahn’s Peak here.
Here we go! Summer Rocks! Part V - Fish Creek Falls.
After our exciting hike up to the summit of Hahn’s Peak, we took the next day to relax and hang out at the lake, kayaking, swimming, reading, and doing whatever we wanted. But the next day, we were ready to go again, so we headed into town to hike Fish Creek Falls. It’s a nice little trail that gets pretty high traffic, but we’re always suckers for a water fall 
We were not disappointed!
We hiked the trail down to the falls and crossed the bridge to get a closer look. We decided to head on up the trail further. Yes, we like to live on the edge 
Unfortunately, the lake was a 5 mile hike, and quite frankly, it was hot and we just weren’t up for it. So we headed back down to the bridge and climbed around on the rocks in the water and cooled down a bit. Always gotta find rocks to keep the boy happy
Seriously, I think Dude would have sat here all day. He just loves climbing on rocks and being by water and just hanging out in nature, no matter what’s going on.
When we got closer to the falls, Dude spotted that log across the rocks there in the middle of the picture. Of course he wanted to walk across it! Knowing he’d never get to it, we told him to go for it He got about half way there before he turned around and came back and posed for a picture.
After our short little hike, we headed back to the campground and just chilled out the rest of the afternoon. We’d been having so much fun and were ready to just hang out and enjoy the peace and quiet. Since it was Tuesday, it was very quiet in the campground, just how we like it We hadn’t gotten to do any fishing, so after dinner we got some bait and headed Hahn’s Lake, a little lake a couple miles from the campground. You’re allowed to only have paddle boats on the lake . . . it was BEAUTIFUL!
Princess put some powerbait on her hook and threw her line in the water. It took about 2 minute before she snagged a little rainbow trout! She was so excited! It was the only fish we caught, but it sure was fun And really, who cares if you catch fish when you’ve got a view like this?!
After the sun went down, it got quite buggy so we headed back to the campground for the nightly fire and s’mores. We stayed up quite late on our last night and were treated to a wonderful show! Remember that meteor shower that happened a couple weeks ago? Yup - we got to see some of that . . . or at least we think we did. We saw some of the biggest and brightest shooting stars ever . . . 12 in one hour! So we figure it had to be part of the meteor shower. Regardless of what it was, it was spectacular and a wonderful way to end our camping trip.
Check back tomorrow for Summer Rocks! VI to see what kind of adventure we took the kids on to end the summer.