Granite Creek

If you haven't headed up into Granite Creek, you should. It heads into an amazing canyon filled with vertical rock walls, petroglyphs, caves, and sandy washes. As usual, we hiked in the dark to get to our campsite - about 7 miles in. Finally we came to a huge sandy river bottom, which made for a great place to camp.

There was so much dry wood along the wash banks that getting a couple of roaring fires was no problem whatsoever, and sure helped to keep us warm throughout the night. In the morning we were able to enjoy the scenery much more, and we found even more caves and indian petroglyphs on the way out.

We didn't get many pictures from this trip, but there are a few if you click on the campfire below. The dark picture with all of the little dots, the one that looks like a picture of the stars, that's a picture of headlamps as the Scouts scrambled over rocks and climbed through brush during the hike in.