On a very stormy looking morning, seven brave hikers met at the Black Canyon City Trailhead near Rock Springs, Arizona. Originally ten had signed up, but it was raining in many parts of the valley three sent their regrets and decided to stay dry.

The clouds looked so threatening that it could have been a cancelled hike, but since so many showed up, we had Adrian take our group photo and a bunch more nice shots along the way, and then we talked it over. It was decided we’d go up to the intersection with a spur trail and then reassess our options.

Two hikers decided to go back and the rest of us trudged on. The temperature was perfect, in the 70s, and we knew a little rain wouldn’t hurt us.

Flowers brighten our passage.

The thunder started rolling in, so we turned around and headed up still thinking we were going to get wet, but it never happened. Back at the cars we said our goodbyes and then some of us received “severe weather” warnings on our phones. We actually drove through some of it on the freeway headed south, but nothing like we thought it would be.

7 hikers  4  AZHC members;  3 NMVC members
3 miles, 2 hours