The Great Outdoors. . . (kinda)

So a lot of people say that there is nothing to do in the inland empire. Well i think there is plenty to do. Recently a group of friends and I were sitting around and starting to think maybe there really isn't that much to do around here. Then someone came up with the great idea of maybe just doing something to just get out of the house. Do anything where we were outside because it was a beautiful sunny day. So after we decided that we were getting out... we then had to decide where to go and what we were going to do. With all the cities and housing tracts and shopping centers it is really easy to forget that there is some space out there that is just pure nature. So we all got in the car and headed over to Carnelian, a pretty known street off of the 210 freeway and not to far from my house in Upland. We then took a street called Saphire all the way to what seemed to be the foot of the mountains, and got out of the car... and decided this was it. We were going to go for a hike to the Cucamonga Falls. It was a hike a few had been on before but i had not so when i heard "falls" i was farely excited as i pictured a big waterfall. We hiked on a dirt road as it got smaller and smaller untill it turned into stepping on rocks as we followed a windy trail that crossed over a stream that got bigger and bigger as we went up. For a moment we thought either we were never going to get there... or maybe we were lost. Ruling out the lost part because we were very careful to follow the water, we soon realized it was a lot farther then we expected. Finally we could hear the water as it crashed over huge rocks.. and that was Cucamonga Falls. It was a cool little area where teenagers set up ropes to climb on so they can jump off of the large rocks into the surprisingly very very deep icy cold waters below. So for all you people with nothing to do on a sunny day, go for a hike up to the falls, its pretty cool and you will actually get the sense that there is some nature out there after a long week in the urban cities.