Camping in Sedona

We've tried to pack in some fun stuff with the girls before we leave for China very soon. We took them camping last week. Our favorite place, Sedona. Our poor camper that is 30 years old is having a hard time keeping up with us and the lining falls apart on the pop up a bit more each time we set it up. It has patches saftey pinned all over it. Pretty classy digs.

Camp Site

rabbits were all over our tent site

 We tried a few new trails and found some new wonders. Arizona never ceases to amaze me in it's beauty. Against our better judgement we thought we'd try a trail that led to The Devil's Kitchen. We had said we'd never hike another trail with the word Devil in it, because it usually turns out to be just that, a trail leading to hell. This trail promised that the Devil's Kitchen, a huge sink hole, was right at the beginning of the trail and if you only walked a little farther, you'd come upon The Seven Sacred Pools. The pools are hollows in the red rock that even in dry seasons have water in them. The trail delivered. Nice great big sink hole and seven skanky pools- oh, er sacred pools. The water was pretty stagnant so we decided not to dip in the sacred pools.

Devils Kitchen

The Seven Sacred Pools

Pools from another angle

Love the colors on the tree

Another angle of the Devil's Kitchen. Hard to get a picture of how big it is.

This rock formation is called Katchina Lady

We tried a few vortex trails, didn't feel anything but Brent would like his crankiness on the trip back to the vortex trail so perhaps we felt something...

Trying out a vortex

Brent at a Vortex

Brent and the kids are on this rock that's supposed to be a vortex. You just can't see them.

My favorite was walking a trail to get a fantastic view of Cathedral Rock. Spectacular!

Trees

Cathedral Rock

Karianne with Cathedral Rock

The valley in front of Cathedral Rock was covered with these cairns