14 miles, 7.5 hours

We walked up the switchbacks this morning in beautiful warm sunshine! It didn’t last long but we enjoyed it. Then we dropped down Lower Muley Canyon and for the next 12 Miles we twisted and turned, surprised over and over by the grandeur of the canyon.

We walked along looking up and around at the huge canyon walls of red and tan sandstone, the massive amphitheaters left and right, caves up above tall slopes. The boulders in the wash bottom were smooth and spectacular in burgundy, brick, salmon, purple, turquoise swirled in lavender, adobe, pink and tan. Thick, twisted and broken trees still managed to sprout plenty of spring leaves. Hunks of rocks the size of buses were bored through with Swiss cheese holes from water and wind.