photos from Slickhorn Canyon backpack

[ilanarama]

I've uploaded a dozen photos from our backpack trip last weekend to our flickr page; click on the teaser to see them all.



Incidentally, the couple hiking with us are 73 and 76 years old. This was not a trivial hike - the daily distances were relatively short, but there were no trails over much of this terrain, and we had to take packs off and pass them through a hole in a boulder jumble once on the way down, and then hand them up and scramble up a short cliff on the way up (a different side canyon). Also, we saw a rattlesnake on the way out - and yes, there's a photo in the set of it, and no, we didn't get bitten.

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[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I was the first person up that scrambly section of trail, and I heard the rattle off to my right and immediately went left! I didn't see it, though - I was looking off toward the trees farther off, thinking it was a big snake far away instead of, as it turned out to be, a little snake close by.