Friday dawned and our group started hiking out of Havasupai in small groups as they were ready to leave.               For my nephew, Russell and myself, we stayed a little longer because we were riding the horses out of the canyon. Russell’s ankle was still giving him some issues and Enoch had turned his ankle while at Havasupai. So, I joined them. 🙂 $85 one-way and you are allowed to carry a day pack.     They said it would take 2 1/2 hours to get out of Havasupai…   …but it only took us 1 1/2 hours as we trotted and galloped our…

In past years, on the third day, we would be hiking out but this year we decided to stay an day. It was a nice relaxing day visiting Navajo & Havasu Falls but there were some that hiked to Beaver again! They wanted to do more cliff jumping.   Havasu Falls was where Russell and I went first. There were some that climbed the slippery moss covered rocks to get to a place under the falls where they could jump. We stayed a good amount of time and even witnessed someone getting engaged – the second engagement we saw while at Havasupai.   Navajo Falls, we have found, is the…

Russell started off the morning with the continental breakfast offered by the Lodge. 🙂   Going to Havasupai in September the weather was much nicer in the mornings. Preparing to have devotions before hiking out for the day.     Parts of Navajo Falls had changed. The reeds were very thick and tall in some areas. We are wondering if they die out in the winter and come back in the summer because we’ve never seen so many here. In another post I’ll show you more of Navajo Falls because we didn’t stop here on this day for long. Our main goal was to hike 5.5 miles one way to…

The weather was beautiful, the people lovely and the scenery spectacular. Havasupai 2017 did not disappoint. We left the house about 4:30am. In past years, we’ve always met up with some of our other hikers at another location but this year they were all staying at my house so we didn’t stop at our usual breakfast stop but traveled further along. Eating in the cool morning air at 6:30 in the morning just didn’t sound appealing. But the morning warmed up and we found a little spot on the side of the road to eat our simple breakfast of yogurt and cereal.     Cousins making memories together.   Once…