Afton State Park

A little bit delayed, but we visited Afton State Park a few weekends ago on an overcast morning.  It was still a beautiful day, and we enjoyed our walk along the St. Croix river.

As we started down the path, there was a very pretty path with stairs winding down toward the river bank:

Our first hint that this might be a little bit more than we anticipated when we saw a man clearly in much better shape than us huffing and puffing his way up the stairs... uh oh!  As we feared, the stairs kept going... and going... and going!  And so did we.

The worst part was coming back up!  But we managed to get back in one piece, tired but smiling.