Red River Gorge

Red River Gorge

If last Friday is an indication of the rest of the summer then it is going to be good. I took a rather impromptu trip to Red River Gorge, KY. -- God's land. :) The two Wolverine coaches, Travis and I, (which I might add have a winning team in the league -- surprised?) headed early Friday morning to Kentucky to hike. After four hours of driving, we arrived at the gorge. Travis is a runner so I think he thought this would be a piece of cake. After an hour of hiking, we were both sweating and after another hour of going uphill, we were a bit winded. His words later were, "I thought we would be on gravel most of the time." We ended up getting a great workout and having a great day. (Yes, DJ, it was much nicer than Lumberjack) Luckily, Travis was ok with my "snacks" and didn't need three full meals so we spent from noon to 8:30 hiking and basically had some beef jerky, trail mix, and bananas. (See, mom and Meg, there are others like me) We made it to an arch called Grey's Arch. It was huge; although, the pic below does it no justice. We ended up free climbing it which was somewhat of a challenge, but we made it. We snuck into a campground bathroom that night, cleaned up, and then headed to Lexington to eat at Atomic Cafe (one of my favorite's in college). It was as good as I remembered, and the sweet potato chips were amazing! (Mom, your's are as good though) We ended up leaving at midnight and getting home at 4 am and then we had soccer the next day! Despite our exhaustion, our team won! That's some true coaching. LOL! Anyway, it was a great trip, and I'm so glad we did it. Here are some pics from the day.

I'm that tiny blue dot on top of the big boulder.
This is Gray's Arch.
This is when we made it to the top.
This is looking down from the top.
Ah, I miss seeing this.

We met this snake along the way. Travis tried to pick him up, but he was too quick.

I wanted to find those caves!
Travis taking a break