The day after getting home from our Disneyland trip, Ben and I left for an overnight backpacking trip. Apparently when Ben gets some vacation time, we squeeze in as many activities as possible! haha. Ben's sister, Emily, was so nice to take all of our kids during our overnighter - I sure love this Ben of mine and the alone time we can find!
We hiked Hell's Hole trail located in the Mogollon Rim area, about 2-3 hours east of us...
It's a longer hike- about 6 miles in, and then 6 out - and the last couple of miles are HARD - very steep - coming in you are hiking downhill, and coming up it's a very slow, uphill climb...
A nice little break on the way in - by a shaded area and small stream...
On the way down into the canyon...
Once we were at the bottom, we set up camp - and shortly thereafter we found a rattlesnake hiding right in our camp... well, crumb- Ben carefully scared him away with some rocks :)
Cooking dinner...
We were literally the only ones on this hike - we never saw anyone on the way in or out - so we had some amazing privacy! (except for our rattlesnake friend)
Some previous backpackers left a nice little present for us... we kindly saved it for the next visitors :)
We were completely out of water at this point- because we had anticipating having water at our camp to filter, but the river in the canyon was completely dried up. So on the way out, we were soooo exciting to get back to this little stream and we filtered several liters of water - it tasted amazing! hahaha
I love having such memorable adventures with Ben! He's the best. :)
Looks great!
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