Coconino National Forest

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Change of scenery: temperate ponderosa pine forest at...
Mike, Andy and Joel take a breather after finding Bear...
Andy, Monica, Mike and Joel avoiding a pot of frog soup.
Monica takes some delicate steps on a downclimb in Bear Canyon.
The canyon starts to slot up: Joel leads the way with...
The colors in this canyon were quite spectacular: gray...
Monica's having fun on her first day of the trip.
Everyone is having a good day: Andy, impressed with the...
Joel contemplates a jump into the next pool?
Andy, suited up his wet suit about to slip into a dark, icy pool.
Andy snaps a picture of me as I snap a picture of him. ...
Monica swimming in an icy pothole.
Monica pulls herself from a pothole while Mike lends a...
Monica rigs her rappel while Mike stands by to...
Mike rappels while Joel watches and Andy plays with his...
Joel, Andy and Mike at the bottom of the first pothole escape.
Monica on rappel while Mike gives a belay.
Joel, rigging a rappel.
Monica, Mike and Andy look excited to be past the...
Monica and Andy head into the most dramatic section of...
A patch of blue sky visible through the sinuous narrows.
Mike, stopping for a moment to look around.
John, standing in a section of narrows in Bear Canyon.
Monica negotiates around some boulders in Bear Canyon.
Monica, back out in the sunlight again at last!
We discovered a new form of life. There were tiny...
Some really cool scarab looking beetle.
Lunchtime at Clear Creek: Mike and Andy look for rocks to skip.
Joel skipping a rock in West Clear Creek.
Joel studies our map, which was in fact a picture taken...
A cute hanging garden in West Clear Creek.
Another shot of a hanging garden in West Clear Creek.
Joel skips a rock while Mike watches.
Andy and Monica hike upstream through West Clear Creek...
Monica, with her new belay gloves, which turn out to be...
Monica looks off in the distance at some cliffs that...
Monica in a relatively lush meadow (not what I was...
Andy pauses to fix his shoe, Monica looks at something...
Here is a climbing route (up the corner) with a few...
Checking out the exit to tomorrow's canyon: Sundance. ...
Monica crossing West Clear Creek once again. Good thing...
Starting to look like it may rain... (note: today is...
Andy (left), Mike (center) and Joel (right) escaping...
Monica, on the uphill slog from the valley. It was a...
Resting for a minute on a log at the top of the climb...
The impression left by someone's wet shorts.
It turns out that our campsite was only a few dozen...
As mentioned earlier, we decided not to go out on...
Happy Birthday, America. A day early. From Meredith. ...
Meredith attempts to spell her last name (Moseley). ...
Our campfire.
Hello, hummingbird. Joel, in the background. This guy...
Another shot of mommy hummingbird. I assume she did not...
Meredith hikes down into the Sundance Canyon drainage:...
Andy, as usual, snapping a picture, while I do the same...
Monica scrambles over a log in our path, while Andy,...
Andy jumps over a small pothole in upper Sundance...
Mike, downclimbing a log in Sundance Canyon.
Andy holds out a hand to help Meredith cross a puddle of...
Andy tries a stemming technique to get across a pool of...
Perhaps a full body bridge would work better?
Fail. Andy gets his feet wet. Meredith, being shorter...
Walking on a log jam. Andy, Monica (center) and Mike...
We find the first rappel station. Also, there is a...
Monica on the first rappel into Sundance Canyon.
Moments before disaster.... (I think I must have snapped...
Meredith and Andy wade through another pot of frog soup....
This log was so precariously balanced. Also Meredith...
Mike, just hanging out on a log.
Oh, wait, this was the precariously leaning log.
Mike, hanging out waiting to see if the next pool is a...
It's starting to a look a bit deep! (Meredith)
Monica in her super suit.
At this point, Monica and I had donned our wetsuits...
Meredith downclimbs into a narrow slot filled with dark...
Monica, getting ready for a swim at the bottom of the...
Into the abyss! (Monica sliding down into the water.)
While everyone else put their wet suits on, Monica and I...
Monica leads the second rappel in Sundance Canyon. We...
Meredith, trying to keep her hands (which don't have...
Andy, starting the second rappel.
Andy, about to drop into the water.
Joel on rappel.
Joel, swimming in the pothole.
Mike on rappel.
Mike swimming out of the pothole. We were lucky that...
Meredith, just after getting out of the pothole.
Monica, still having a good time.
Proof that John was on this trip: one token picture. ...
Andy on the second to last rappel, which involved going...
Meredith, waiting her turn to rappel.
Monica, waiting for the second to last rappel. We were...
Monica watches Meredith rappel.
Monica rappels into the next series of potholes.
Having swum across the first pothole, Monica scampers up...
Monica, about to start the second stage of the rappel.
Mike, Joel and Andy carefully inspect the rigging of our...
Joel and Mike discuss tying our pull cord to the rope,...
Monica and Meredith, waiting their turn at the top of...
Meredith, starting the 170 foot rappel. The reason the...
Monica, starting the 170 foot rappel.
Monica starts working down the upper section of the...
Joel lays out in the sun at the bottom of the 170 foot...
Joel, still laying out in the sun. Looks like Monica's...
Joel pulls 200+ feet of rope through the anchor with the...
Mike (front) and Andy (rear) inspect a double-pronged...
Meredith and Monica boulder-hop downstream in West Clear Creek.
Joel, makes himself an audience for Andy's testing of...
Mike clears out of the way for Andy's dive. (Andy is in...
Andy slowly shuffles out onto the super bouncy...
Andy moves into position to take the plunge into a small...
High dive! Mike, taking aim.
Geronimo! (Mike. John's head at right.)
Meredith skips a rock while the rest of us laze about on...
Meredith skipping a rock.
Joel, getting ready to skip a rock.
Andy, Mike and Meredith watching the sunset from the...