Monday, May 25, 2009

Canyon de CHELLY





Alright so heres the story.. These pics are all from Chinle, Az in the Canyon de Chelly.  This Canyon has numerous overlooks to ruins all throughout the canyon.. it truly is beautiful scenery. You can 4x4 the bottom which we heard was a much better route to take.. but with the rain and the newborn.. not really an option.  okay.. so this whole trip all came about the night before.. We thought that we could scoot up there in under a couple hours tops.. lol.. took us about 3.5hrs to get there over 2hrs to tour just the south rim and 3.5hrs back.. it was a    l  o   n    g    haul.   The Fry bread made it all worth while.. well at least it helped.. lol...  It rained all the way down to the first overlook then stopped.. we got out and hiked down to Spider rock.. the pic with the four of us and the Huge rock spire below.  This stop was actually the best actually due to the Echo.. yes the echo.  you could climb out just shy of where our pic was taken and shout out whatever and seconds later hear it echo through the canyon walls.. best echo spot I've heard yet.  I have to say that each and everytime we got out of the car for an overlook with out fail it would downpour on us trying to get back to the vehicle.. we bout froze to death.. well lil Ellashay was purple and shivering.. lol.  We had a good time.  

1 comment:

THE JACKSONS said...

What a fun adventure! Love the pics! You guys make one great looking family if I do say so myself! My boys being the loud mouths that they are, would have gone crazy in that canyon with the echo and all!