After a bit of driving the last few days, today we stuck to Sedona to look around. Our first stop was Red Rock Crossing, which was just around Cathedral Rock from our house, but about a 20 minute drive by car because there just aren’t that many roads, and only one crosses Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona.
The first treasures we came upon were a group of rock cairns down by the creek. Originally constructed for trail markers in remote areas, they seem to pop up in many places, and once you see one, you want to make one yourself. Soon a village of cairns appears. But not to worry – the next big rain will knock them all down and the cycle will repeat itself – we like to think of it as biodegradable folk art!
Here the kids start building their own.
Martin ponders, well, I’m not sure what he is pondering, but it looks like a good place to do it!
Here’s our entire group – it was fun to have both grandmas join us on this trip.
You might remember Emma up in a tree at Sunset Crater a few days ago – here she is at it again (with Martin in training behind her!)
Later in the day we hiked up Long Canyon trail and Emma found another tree over a dry wash.