Last weekend in September

On Saturday we hiked again. We went to Flume Canyon, which is just one canyon to the west of Devil's Gulch. Overall, Devil's Gulch is a more scenic and more interesting hike. A lot of the trail on Flume Canyon out in the open (read as: hot) and very sandy. There were some interesting balanced rocks and some sandstone cliffs with pockets and stalactites sculpted into them. Cailan rode on my back for most of the 4-mile hike, and he seemed a little tired and grumpy. Within the first 15 minutes he said, "I want to go to a different hike that has more shade." He kept talking about finding a good place to stop and have a snack in the shade. So we stopped a couple times, once for cheese and crackers, and again for dry CinnaBunnies cereal.

The terrain got more interesting when the trail actually dropped into the canyon, following a dry creek bed for awhile. At one point, the dry creek bed turned into a dry waterfall: the creek bed spread out into a wide, slickrock formation than ended about 40 feet above the canyon below. The canyon down there was very narrow and looked interesting, but we couldn't get down into it. Maybe next time we will start from the bottom end and hike up to that point from below.


On Sunday, Lindsay came to play with Cailan, and Chris and I went biking. We went back to Mary's Loop, but we took our single bikes instead of our tandem. For me, the trail was much more challenging, riding on my own bike and having to do such things as brake, shift, and steer, than it is riding on the back of the tandem. For Chris, I think the trail is easier on single than tandem. At any rate, we had a great ride!