Thanksgiving Weekend Hike

For Thanksgiving weekend, we went to visit some friends for a few days. On the way up, we stopped at Eugenia Falls and at Metcalfe Rock.

Eugenia Falls is not very wide, but it is tall. From what I could see, it looked like a small stream flowing gently through the woods. Suddenly the ground falls away to a valley between two cliffs and the water goes crashing to the bottom.

On this picture, the falls is to the right. The valley turns and seems to join another valley running perpendicular to the first.

This is a closeup of the far hill in the previous picture. Wouldn't that meadow at the top be a delightful place to build a house?

Here is Metcalfe Rock. Walking up to it through the forest, one wonders how such a big chunk of rock ever managed to be plunked down there. It looks like it must be solid right through for quite a distance, but in reality there is a crevice running parellel to the face of the rock only a few metres in.

We walked around the face of the rock and climbed down into the crevice. There were many small crevices running into the rock. Some were actual tunnels. We climbed from one part of this really big crevice to another, and then found a tunnel that led to a small hole in the wall of the first crevice. It was fun, but somewhat difficult, to climb through a low tunnel guided only by the light of a flashlight.

Emily sitting on a ledge near the end of a crevice.

Looking back into the crevice we had just come out of. The air down there was cool and damp, and it felt good to be out in the warm, fresh forest air. When the breeze came from the right direction it blew cool air up in our faces. The wind was really neat in the crevices, because sometimes it would come from the warm forest above and other times it would blow up from the cool, damp crevices.

The whole place was beautiful and awe inspiring. We thought about how God is our rock and salvation. The rocks are so solid, it makes us think about how God is forever and unchanging.

(All pictures taken by Allison. Used with permission.)

Justine