Aravaipa Canyon, September 2008

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full	Ingrid models all her gear for the trip.
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full	Getting ready to start at the trailhead parking lot. (Rick, Joe & Colin)
full	We reach the river.
full	The whole hike was beautiful and green.
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full	A lot of the hike was wading through very shallow water like this.
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full	The guys on a break.
full	Crazy cobwebs.
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full	I've concluded that all hiking hats are goofy and decided to embrace that.
full	Group shot!
full	I think I took this on my screw-on walking stick / tripod.
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full	Our awesome campsite.
full	Rick taking a nap down by the river.
full	Dave makes fire.
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full	Walls of the canyon across from our cammpsite.
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full	Great bunches of stuff had been washed up against trees and piled there during floods.
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full	On the second day, we took a day hike into one of the side canyons, Horse Camp Canyon.
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full	All these cracks in the canyon walls were leaking water, and most of them had things growing out of them.
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full	Farther up the canyon, the water had carved all these beautiful pools and curved surfaces.
full	We spent a lot of time looking at the pools and all the living things growing in them.
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full	Weird-textured rock (and the tip of my walking stick for scale).
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full	Here it looks like I was taking pictures of the cool pools, but I was actually trying to catch a big, bright red dragon fly in flight (which is impossible, by the way).
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full	I finally caught one! (It was sitting still.)

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