LA Bucket List | Eaton Canyon Falls

FIRST!

first one off the list. w00t. smeggs and i went a trekking out in pasadena. per typical LA crazy weather patterns, it was a spicy 89 degrees the day we went. in January. spicy weather. in January. not ok.

but super ok for hiking! even though brian wore a long sleeve shirt. i'm sure this added to what would be the sleepiest saturday known to our 20-something existence. but more on that later.

eaton canyon was a fun hike. there was definitely a lot of fording rivers. a lot of maneuvering on logs and rocks. like human frogger. it wasn't as green as escondido falls, but i actually found it more interesting - a lot of escondido is walking through residential areas and/or dirt roads. this one got straight to the point.

me, trying not to fall in. it was spicy hot but the water was spicy cold

And then the waterfall at the end!

It was poppin. The cool thing about this hike is that there's a sequel - when you get to the waterfall, you can go all rogue and do this rock scaling hike that leads you to the SECOND waterfall (the one in that spills into a pool in which the above waterfall draws from). but we'll save that for another day. and another list.

after the hike, smeggs and i went over to din tai fung, my favorite dumpling house. they have xiao long baos, juicy pork dumplings which are beyond. and to give you reference on how awesome these things are from particularly this place - DTF is an asian chain - there's only one in north america, and its in arcadia. so super legit. [edit: I think they're opening one up in seattle, so that statement may not be as true as it was a couple months ago...]. It was brian's first time there, so we may have over done it a little on the ordering. which lead to the biggest nap of all time.

we both independently went home, and fell into a coma. Brian immediately passed out at home, only to wake up at 1am and make it out for last call at a bar. I had come back from dinner, decided to take a quick hour power nap and then go out for a friend's birthday. I woke up at 10am instead.

i blame the sun. brian blames the "sleepy soup" in the xiao long baos.