Unfortunately this year Jim could not join us for the 6th episode of “Chasing the Waterfall” since 2012.

But 12 hikers were up to the challenge and made their way up to Williams for another day of gorgeous hiking. Even the attacks of what seemed like myriads of mosquitoes once we started hiking did not dampen our spirits.

After conquering the steep climb to KA Hill, the hike continued on fairly level ground.

Once we got fairly close to the sheep, we caught the attention of the sheep dogs. Instead of herding the sheep it felt like they started herding us away from them. After the sheep had passed us, they trotted away and paid us no more attention.

We continued on to the pond and had to make the decision of either climb the rocks or go around the water and take a more gradual approach.

Either way worked and we all made it safely up to higher ground.

After about 4.6 miles we finally made it to the “waterfall”. By the time we got there, it was confirmed what we already figured out on our way there. Even though we had seen quite some water, there was no water flowing down the fall.

On our last hikes we usually stayed on the canyon site by the “waterfall” to have lunch. This time Dave pointed out that there is another canyon a short walk away. We went there and decided to take our lunch break there. As usual there were quite some climbers and this time even tightrope walkers.