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Petrified Forest Recap

  • November 3, 2016March 10, 2019

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Length of Stay:

  • 3 days, 3 nights

High:

  • Painted Desert Inn lantern tour
  • Investigating an ancient petraglyph calendar which perfectly aligns with the summer solstice

Low:

  • Falling down a soft rock strata during one of my back country expedition

Favorite Hike:

  • Agate House

Favorite Treat:

  • Sopapilla (a Mexican deep-fried pastry)
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Stony Wood and a Haunted Inn

  • November 2, 2016March 10, 2019

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Petrified Forest national park is chock-full of fossilized wood. Based on the pictures I’d seen, I figured that there may be a couple of key places where one might be able to see this mineral-permeated organic matter. After all, how much “rock-wood” can actually be found in an arid desert-like environment?

Apparently a lot.

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Grand Canyon Recap

  • October 31, 2016March 10, 2019

Length of Stay:

  • 2 days, 3 nights

High:

  • Canyon rim mule ride

Low:

  • Horrible parking situation and over-commercialized

Favorite Hike:

  • Point Imperial trail on the North Rim

Favorite Treat:

  • Hatch chiles: on sandwiches and in guacamole
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One Big Canyon

  • October 30, 2016March 10, 2019

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“I hope you’re not scared of heights, cuz I’m going to assign you one of our tallest mules.”

“That’s fine. Will I be riding that one over there?”

“No, yours is in a separate corral. She needs to be isolated from the other mules.”

And that’s how my mule riding adventure at the Grand Canyon … Read more

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