AZ Trip

Cliff really did work	We visited the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden	Nice Catus
garden views	garden views	garden views
many cacti towered over us	Driving north, we see them in the median	and on the hillsides
Slow down for that curve	View of the rocks near Sedona	We hike toward the hills
Rock towers	nice rock	from the other side
great views	great views	lunch break
Pink Jeep by rock	Marilyn by rock	the view
rock chimney	church on the rockside	we climb to snow in Oak creek canyon
First view of the grand canyon the next day	heading down the south Kaibab trail	Crampons required on the steep snow covered beginning
making progress	View point on the trail	View of O'Neill's butte
view east	view west	beside the butte
view across	close to the edge	ravens
Tonto plateau	the views are	irresistable
I see the river	we passed some caves	almost to the plateau
view near the plateau	squirrels like good views during lunch	onto the plateau
just below the plateau is an emergency phone and	a great lunch rock	on the rock
too hot for long pants	Hum, we have to go back up	but some more views first
view of Zoroaster's temple	cacti	more views
ripples on under side of rock?	view from cave	an unnerving corner
Skeleton point view	view east	trail workers on mules heading up
God's finger prints	Western bluebird (we think)	View of O'Neill's butte
Need crampons again	Lots of steps today	In the morning we switch to touristy rim views
Bright angel canyon	we pose at Mather's point	Yesterday we went down along the ridge from the right
after cutting diagonal down along this face	Tunnel on Bright angel trailhead	Close up
Bright angel canyon	Marilyn and grand canyon	Mine rig
mine hole	View from hermit's trail	Cliff seeks a lunch spot -- but batteries fail
so we lunch by the car	a coyote	another view
mule deer herd in the woods	more views	posing with a river view
river	river wall	and more river
Inside the desert view lookout tower	Canyon as a fracture on Navajo reservation	Volcano north of Flagstaff