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| We started hiking in before dawn to avoid the August desert heat. The hike in first took us down 1,100 feet of switchbacks. When we looked up, we saw my favorite sight of the entire trip ...Sandstone sunrise! |
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| We soon lost track of the tall sandstone outer rim walls and dissapeared down into the inner Haulipai canyon. The watershed up from this dry stream bed is very large and you need to be aware of the weather before you hike in. Narrows like this will fill up with flood water quickly. |
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After the smaller Haulipai canyon joins with the Havasu Canyon, there is a creek and a lot of vegitation. The Havasu indians built a ditch on the nonporous clay that supplies the village with water for irrigation. This is entirely unregulated. If one person needs more water, they raise a gate letting more water flow in the ditch and when they are done, they lower the gate. The path into and beyond the village is entirely a fine powdery clay. |
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