Rainy hike

Tim is only with us in Flagstaff Thursday night through Monday evening, and he has to "work from home" on Friday. So he likes to fill his time here with a lot of hikes and bike rides. The only problem is that this is also monsoon season, so whether the weather will cooperate is always up in the air.

Yesterday around noon, we started on our hike to Fisher Point via Sandy's Canyon. The weather was perfect -- a little overcast and about 79 degrees.


Behind the family is an area where a big rock slide obliterated the forest along here, snapping the trees like toothpicks -- not while we were there, though.

All-in-all, the hike was supposed to be just a little less than 6 miles long, most of it pretty flat.

This is a view from down inside the canyon.

We even let Brisi off-leash for a while. But then . . .



After the downpour lightened up a little, my wet children wanted to head home, but my wet husband wanted to keep going. Whining always wins in the end, so we went home.

But, to be fair, everyone was a bit wet and miserable. We'll probably always remember this hike (which was truncated to about a 4 mike hike), because it was the one in which we decided to always carry some disposable rain ponchos. I purchased 5 this morning.