Long Canyon Dec 08
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LONG CANYON
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Harry Grossman leads, making sure that everybody has signed in
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Checking the trail map
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The mouth of Long Canyon is some distance from the trailhead
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Rachel's knoll, once a New Age icon owned by a hippie mother...
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...but now a part of the Seven Canyons real estate development
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Turnoff for the Deadman Pass trail, to left
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Approaching the wilderness boundary
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Nancy relaxes at our first water break
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There's always time for a joke
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At the wilderness boundary, we break up into two groups to satisfy the party size requirement
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We start to encounter manzanita
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We find considerabe winter moss beside the trail, brought out by the cool weather
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From here we get into the Canyon itself
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We cross Long Canyon's major wash
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In the shelter of the canyon, the forest thickens
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Here we turn off the main trail to head for the ruins
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Approaching the Sinagua ruin
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In search of a good lunch spot, we climb to a point
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LIchened, striated sandstone
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From the point, we get a superb view of the small pocket we are in
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Making our way back down
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Back at the ruin...
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...we find a metate
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Continuing around the cliff face...
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...we come to a cave
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Water staining from above
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Back on the main trail
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Recrossing the wash for the last time
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We meet a ranger who looks remarkably like Dennis
