Saturday, July 24, 2010

Salome Jug




It was finally time to take a break. Enough with work, work, and studying. I saw a video of some of my friends going to Salome Jug and had to go, short hike with lots of water and waterfalls. Only 2.5 hrs away and after a 2 mile hike with Roosevelt Lake in view, you enter the Gorge. Once in, the only way out is back. The water was low and although it was not the most ideal time to go we still had a lot of fun. Once in the gorge, you either waded through the water, jumped rocks in the river bed and swam through the river. The video is me going down the rock slide. We saw spiders the size of a man's fist, moss everywhere, a dead dog floating in the pool below a 30' water fall. It was interesting how seeing the dead dog changed so much. When we first got in the gorge the water was not the clearest but didn't bother us. Once we saw the dog anything but clear water we tried to stay away. Our luck, we were going downstream and only at the end we saw the dog.