Tim is here for 4 day weekends every week and goes back to our house for Tuesday through Thursday. The 4 days he's here seem like a vacation and we go, go, go. Yesterday, we went to NAU to watch the football Cardinals practice (more on that in another blog) and then we went to Sunset Crater which is on the same route as the Grand Canyon, only much closer.
Sunset Crater is a volcano which erupted as recently as 1000 years ago. The experts thought it was an ancient volcano until they found pit house foundations under the lava. Don't worry, though -- it appears everyone got out alive. Visitors have not been allowed to actually climb to the top of Sunset Crater since 1972, so we had to be satisfied with hiking up Lenox crater and taking a 1 mile informational hike at the base of Sunset Crater.
The hike up Lenox Crater was 1/2 mile up a steep incline. Once at the top, we could see how the lava flowed down it in little rivers. Unfortunately, none of my photos of that turned out!
This is a picture of a spatter cone -- basically a mini-volcano.
The surrounding area looked a little like what I imagine a moonscape looks like (no, not green cheese), except with little plants starting to grow in it.
Annie fell down at the beginning of the informational hike and hurt her knee. She managed to make the whole 1 mile hike with just a bit of whining. She wanted, however, to make sure there was actual documentation of her pain.
4 comments:
That last part reminds me of another blog.
What a neat place to go. Can we go there sometime (and I DO mean can, not may)?
There always must be proof of an injury. There is a picture from one of our vacations of the bruise indicating my broken little toe. :) So sorry Annie got a scrape!
Schmutz, we can and we may.
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