Havasu Falls

Prepare yourself. This post is gonna be a doozey. Linz and I just got back from our trip to the Grand Canyon. There were four of us total. Linz and I, our tour guide, and a lady from Deutschland (that would be Germany) who booked at the last minute. Our trip took us to the Havasupai Indian Reservation. To get there, we started at the Haulapai Hilltop and hiked 8 miles to the village of Supai. From there, we had 2 more miles to get to the campground. This isn't your traditional campground. There aren't any marked campsites....you just find a flat area and set camp. They do have composting toilets, which is pretty nice. And there's a fresh spring to get clean water.

Anyway, we have quite a few pictures to post. I tried to narrow it down, but it's pretty much impossible. So you might as well get comfortable. Here we go...

Linz and I before starting the hike down

View of the "trail"

Linz is super-excited
These two stones are called the "Watchers." The Havasupai believe that these stones guard the entrance to their village and that when they fall, the canyon will close up and the tribe will be no more.
This is Emerald Falls (aka New Navajo Falls). It's one of two new waterfalls created after the flood of 2008.
Here's Linz in front of one part of Emerald Falls

Here's me

And here's us

This is Rock Falls, the second falls created after the flood of '08. This is the falls I jumped off of, since it's only roughly 25 feet high. Check out the video below...

This is also the falls where most of the native children would hang out. They don't like having their picture taken, so I had to sneak this one...

And this is Mooney Falls. It is actually taller than Niagara Falls (although obviously not as wide) at around 200 feel tall. We climbed down this section of the canyon...

This gives you a good idea of how tall this waterfall is. You see those tiny dots at the top? That's Linz and the lady from Germany. And I've only captured about 1/4 of the fall in the pic. So....yeah. Pretty big.
Lindsey contemplating existentialism at the top of Mooney Falls
And this begins our descent down

During the descent, we had to go through two caves...
Here's a video of us going through the caves.

This is what we climbed down.
And this is the very end of it.
I was super thirsty afterwards...

The next waterfall we explored was Beaver Falls, which is a cascade.
See that little dot at the bottom of the falls? Yup, that's my head.

Linz and I chilled at Beaver Falls for most of the day, so we set up our hammock over the water.

And one day we found this random waterfall. We liked going over here cause no one else knew about it. It was our own private swimming area.
And here's me jumping off a cliff...

One night, our tour guide, Jon, and I climbed up the canyon wall to explore some caves...

And here's the main attraction....Havasu Falls...

And the view from the top...

And I just like this pic...

And here's the canyon right before the sunrise on our hike out...

This is one of the dogs from the village. He followed us for about 3/4 of the hike out of the canyon.

Linz with her super awesome knife...yeah, it's that really small thing in her right hand.

Here we are after completing the hike out. The last mile or so was nothing but switchbacks up the canyon wall. It was pretty tiring...

Once we left the canyon, we stopped at one of the famous Route 66 diners. I don't know if I was just that hungry, but the burger was one of the best I ever had...

So...in summary, we hiked somewhere around 40 miles, did a little rock climbing/scrambling, descended a waterfall taller than Niagara Falls, and jumped off waterfalls/cliffs. All in all, pretty sweet vacation.

Grand Canyon

We are hiking the Grand Canyon this week! Pictures soon to come!...please pray that we do not get bitten by snakes or scorpions!