Sunday, February 24, 2013

Thursday, February 21. A sad farewell to good friends and beautiful scenery


By 8:00 am the vans were loaded, and we headed back along the Apache Trail.  We made a brief stop at the Fish Creek hill where the road narrows before a hairpin turn and steep uphill section. The melting snows provided us with the unusual desert site of delicate waterfalls cascading down the cliff side.  



One van stopped at our Mesa motel for those who had left their cars there for the week and then continued up to Scottsdale where 4 of our participants would join another NAU program for a second week of hiking.  The second van took the rest of us to the Phoenix airport where we were catching our return flights.  It was an amazing week of beautiful and challenging hikes, and we all said our sad good-byes to our hiking friends and program coordinators.  As soon as we got home, we started searching our RS catalogues for our next adventure!

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