Wednesday, April 2, 2008

a morning hike up Tahquitz Canyon

Archeologists have dated artifacts in this canyon from the Agua Caliente (Hot Water) Indians from 1600 years ago and legend dates it to over 3000 years. We headed up the trail around 8:00 while the canyon was shadowed and cool. It's 2 miles long and there is a beautiful waterfall at the back of the canyon.
The trail wound up the canyon between the vertical rock face, following a stream, wild flowers in full bloom. It was like we had it all to ourselves, only saw a few hikers in 3 hours. There are many special places, rocks with unique designs, plants and animals to see. Impossible to truly describe...

What an awesome place... I feel like I have used that description too many times in past blogs, but there is truly no other way to describe this phenomenal country of ours. We feel so blessed to have the opportunity to experience it.

(self portraits are tough....I really wasn't choking Connie.... well, maybe just a little.....)

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