We hiked up this canyon to Ripley's run. It is supposed to be moderate to difficult. You go down a narrow canyon and you have to climb down dry waterfalls. Lots of cool patterns in the plants. Red stems, white desert gems, red flowered plant, dodder, yellow and red plant and two sun cups.
Yellow creosote and palo verde flowers, fiddleheads,red and white leaves, yellow palo verde flowers with a smoke tree in front, daddy long legs with white striped legs, and a phacelia with a bloom and fiddle head. Nice view of the lake with a cholla and creosote bush in the foreground
Sign for Ripley's run trail. Carry lots of water. Be snake aware.blooming poppies in a row, brittle bush blooms, palo verde blooms up close, cholla cactus and brittle bush blooms. Intricate branches on a dead bush, gilia blooms, gravel ghost in front of brittle bush blooms, I have no idea how I got that flower to glow, but I was taking a photo of the flower in the next photo, blooming cholla.
John climbing a ridge with cholla and blooming palo verde in front. Nice cholla cactus on the horizon with blooming flowers and wild grasses.
White crypantias, two different groups of gravel ghost, desert trumpet, gravel ghost bloom, one beetle on the back of the one under it that is carrying it. Sand verbenas above the lake, seed heads, paper bag bush flowers, phacelia in front of a red rock cave, the seeds of the paper bag bush, they seem to think they look like paper bags.
The canyon is starting to narrow. John with all the blooms, Willow, nightshade, cool piece of wood, Tiny crypanthias, prickly poppy and one of many caves on the canyon walls.
Water mark on the canyon wall, tiny mesquite leaves, red range ratany flowers.
Me coming down one of the dry waterfalls.
John climbing down another dry fall. He turned around and took a photo of me on top of it.
Beautiful canyon with green trees and flowers.
We survived the canyon and made it to Lake Havasu. On the way back John found another narrow canyon. It sucked us in.
John in the narrows.
Beautiful red rock walls.
Sunset tonight from camp.
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