As winter approaches each year and the daylight hours grow shorter, I'm always hard-pressed to find short hikes doable before it's completely dark outside. For a while, my friend Chris and I have been trying to get together to hike the Kings Canyon area just east of Carson City. It's a short drive and a short hike, which will hopefully, allow us to complete it before it's pitch black outside.
Driving down to Carson, I meet Chris at his house and we quickly head over to the trailhead. After quickly reviewing the map, we head up the moderately steep incline. In the distance, we can hear the lower waterfall, but the trail we intend to take doesn't take us by that until the return trip. The trail here is actually a forest service road that uses switchbacks to traverse the steep hillside. Eventually, we find a side trail that appears to head deeper into the canyon and decide to take it.
This trail follows the creek that is responsible for carving this canyon. The leaves of the small quacking aspen have turned yellow, as they do every October, but it makes for a beautiful scene. As we cross a small sturdy bridge across the creek, we turn back towards the trailhead. The trip back is uneventful as night falls, but we take a quick detour to see the waterfall before returning to the truck. We hiked just shy of 2 miles, but it was nice just to get out on a week night. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and so these shots were taken with my phone.
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