Trailblazers on an old bridge on our way to Aravipa. [photo by Michael]

Aravipa is a beautiful place. It has a stream running though it and large trees to put our tents under. It is also a dangerous place for flash floods. The monday after we left the slot canyon in the following pictures had over 10 feet of water in it. Aravipa is a permit only wildness area and has an east and west entrance. We came in the west entrance, which a car can get to. The east entrance you need high clearance on good days and 4 x 4 on bad days. It was hot in Phoenix, but cool in Aravipa. It is fun resting under big trees and looking up the hill side with cacti.

Chilling at the camp site. [photo by Michael]

The slot canyon. [photo by Michael]

>The slot canyon with poeple. [photo by Michael]