12 miles, 6 hours

Easter weekend should now be called boy scout expedition weekend. We’ve seen more troops than we can count. It’s strange after so many days of seeing no one at all.

The walk up Coyote Gulch is beautiful, with seeps of water coming out of the rock walls and small waterfalls and amphitheaters and slickrock ledges and arches and natural bridges. No wonder it’s a popular place.

As we left Coyote Gulch and walked up Hurricane Wash the sky clouded over and progressively looked stormier. We got to Hole in the Rock Road and then to our buried food cache and dug it up in the late afternoon. We set up the tarp in the building wind wishing there were some trees around to break the wind.