Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Decent!
The start of our journey was pretty hard, but very much worth it! We had to drive about 6 hours from Las Vegas, so we started our hike down in the middle of a pretty hot day! There were some amazing views along the way. I tried to capture the jist of the trip so that I wouldn't use up all my camera batteries before actually getting to the falls.
The first picture is of Carey and I at the top of the Grand Canyon. The next two show my five fellow hikers and what we had to hike down at the beginning. Then the last two pictures show the hike at bottom of the canyon.



This last picture is my favorite! We were hiking through rocks for a few miles and finally we saw our first sign of life (besides sagebrush and cactus). It was beautiful!
Water In Sight!
Our first sign of water!!!
More water! :)
Surely we must be getting close to the village now!
Tyler and Carey ended up running ahead so they could make it to the office before it closed. They ended up getting there about ten minutes before the office was supposed to close... close call! I didn't take pictures of the village. It was an amazing sight! Probably had more horses and dogs than people, and yet there are two churches and a school there!
After the village we hiked another two miles to Havasu Falls...
Havasu Falls!!!
We finally made it to the falls! These particular pictures don't show the blue color of the water. It was amazing! Two weeks before we went a flood happened, so the week prior to our visit the waters were brown. Perfect timing for us!!!

Carey and I decided to climb up to this spot. Part of it was a little scary to climb because of how slick it was, but we made it! Everyone else came up and I decided we needed a picture... that's why I'm not in this awesome pic.

This last picture was a fun one to take! I climbed up some rock and had to lean over the edge and stretch out my arm so that I could try to get the falls between those trees. It was quite fun!
Mountain Women!
Mooney Falls Hike (part one)
Mooney Falls Hike (part two)
Hopefully these pictures show the steepness of the hike down. It was a little scary, I'll be honest... especially since we all carried our water and cameras down there.



This picture shows the tunnels pretty well.
I love these last two pictures! You can really see how this was once a bunch of wet mud dripping down... It's crazy that it is what we hiked down!
This picture shows the tunnels pretty well.
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