I did a revisit to Matthiesen Park in Utica, IL. This time, my wife and my father-in-law came with. We should have been wearing water proof boots, but had a great time anyways.
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- Matthiesen has two canyons. this is an overview of the canyon we hiked.
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- Stairs we crossed to get in the canyon.
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- Fence preventing you from falling down a waterfall into the other canyon
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- Gives an idea how high the canyon walls are
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- That’s me facing the camera, my father-in-law looking away
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- Another view crossing the stone path
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- It’s great how close you can get to the dam
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- Great pic of the stone wall
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- People carve their name in the stone wall. Where’s an environmentalist when you need one?
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- We’ve found a comfortable place to eat. Well, for a little while, anyways.
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- My wife and her father sitting on a natural edge in the stone wall
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- My wife and her father standing in what looks like a large tear drop inside the stone wall
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- Yeah, where is the path to walk on here?
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- These stones were not comfortable to cross
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- This is the first waterfall we came across
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- We had to walk across the first waterfall
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- This is the other waterfall we saw
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- This pond has a lot of algae. Want a sip?
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- This is a shot down the other canyon. I finally have a camera thet can sort of capture depth.
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- We had to walk back up these to get to the car…
