Today before breakfast a part of our party walked up the cliff to a huge bowl in the rock created by a waterfall. It was easily 100ft wide with large rounded rock walls moving up on all sides, minus where the water drained out. It was cool just to sit there and look at the walls rising up all around you.
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| Spike in the bowl |
It was another day of no major rapids just some small fun stuff to splash you a little bit. We made up for that lack of excitement though by doubling up and doing two hikes. At lunch we walked up the hillside of another side canyon. We entered this seeming valley between the canyons that looked more like an African safari than the Arizona desert. We followed a creek through it to a gorgeous little waterfall that fell down the side of the rock. Some of us climbed up to the top of it and this is where we created the invention of butt damming. That is where lots of people sit in the path of the water flow to build up a large amount of water behind them and then release it all at once to increase the flow of a waterfall. It was quite fun.
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| Some of the adventure party |
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| Pioneers in butt damming |
Later, after we had made camp and had dinner, we actually undertook the adventure of a moonlit hike. We all walked up the hill from camp to the site of an old Indian grain storage. The canyon was wide at this point, and the nearly full moon lit up the ground beautifully. It was nice just sitting at the top of the hill gazing out on the landscape in the moonlight.
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| To me this looked like Africa |
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| People for scale |
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