Sometimes we take friends on our hikes, this time the Triple Falls loop. Poor Will was suffering from a knee tear and couldn’t make it the full 5 miles, but it was amazing to walk behind a waterfall, see the falls, and on our hike out we spotted a few pika.<\/p>\n
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Sometimes we take friends on our hikes, this time the Triple Falls loop. Poor Will was suffering from a knee tear and couldn’t make it the full 5 miles, but it was amazing to walk behind a waterfall, see the falls, and on our hike out we spotted a few pika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backpacking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p527vR-ic","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1127,"url":"https:\/\/richerdesign.com\/backpacking\/hiking-with-friends\/","url_meta":{"origin":1128,"position":0},"title":"Hiking with Friends","author":"Mom","date":"June 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes we take friends on our hikes. 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