Taum Sauk State Park

Lisa and I found our way to the highest point in Missouri yesterday. It's on a mountain called Taum Sauk, pronounced Tom Sock (kind of). It's about an hour and a half from St Charles. It's part of the St Francois mountains which are pretty and remote. We had a great ride down except for the fact that we were both feeling under the weather. Speaking of weather, it was a perfect fall day. When we started out in the morning there was a brisk chill in the air. Even after we arrived at the state park at 11:30 or so it was still nice and cool which made the hike down to Mina Sauk Falls a pretty pleasant walk.

The waterfall is what is known as a wet weather falls (I think, that's the term). It only really flows during rainy weather. It was a slight trickle when we got there but the scenery was pretty, well, scenic. We were deep in a valley in the St Francois mountains. After being to Colorado and through the Sierra Nevada mountains these looked more like big hills, but pretty none the less. It also felt pretty secluded. We had lunch, took some photos and started the hike back, which was mostly uphill. The drive back was just as enjoyable as the one down and we even scored some cheap gas, $3.29 compared to the $3.38 it was going for around St Charles at the time. All in all another good day for the Glass/Miller clan, except Moon, she didn't get to go and was fed late.