We climb to the Wind Caves for a second time this year.

My brother in law, Eric, saw our pictures from our last post and wanted to hike up to the wind cave.  We invited his family to go but his wife stayed to can food with my wife.  Here are the pictures.  Once again we said a prayer for safety and once again we had several incidences but came out safe.  The incidences were falling and scraping along with blisters.  Kylee bumped her head so hard into a rock ceiling that a piece of the rock fell and hit my foot.  She saw stars and had to sit for awhile.  Then last but not least, I did a stupid thing and accidentally discharged my gun.  Fortunately, having had good training since a kid, I had pointed the gun in the right direction and nobody was hurt except our nerves and eardrums.  I'm not sure why it went off but I took it out of my holster and was going to put it in my backpack for awhile as I felt we were above all the bears and relatively out of danger.  I popped out the magazine and went to remove the round from the chamber and while I was trying to rack the slide it caught in my backpack and I let it go.  Then somehow in trying to redo it, it was still caught and I must have hit the trigger and BOOM!.  I felt the sting on my arm of the blast and looked around for blood but fortunately not even a scratch was on me.  The bad thing was we were in an overhang and it was extra loud.  But it taught us all a lesson of what not to do.  Here are the pictures:

In back: Kylee, Eric, Katlyn, Macey.  In Front: Quinn, Alex, me

Behind the waterfall

Kylee hit her head on that overhang in the upper left of the photo
 

Alex waiting for Quinn

Sub-Alpine Fir pinecones
 

Mountain Ash