It was great to see clouds in the sky from the [link slug="palisade-trailhead"/], but it wasn't until we left the [link slug="palisade-trail"/] some 3 miles into our hike, wandered thru the yellow flowers and explored Pine Canyon above the first falls that I looked back and realized that we might get to enjoy some rain...

Water was flowing nicely at the first falls - but it wasn't our destination for the day. We continued down the trail - past Mud Spring - eventually leaving the trail and taking a small drainage towards a favorite spot above Pine Canyon.

It was a good day to sit for awhile and enjoy the rain... 7 miles, +/-1600' of elevation gain/loss.