Woods Canyon Feb 09
From the Village of Oak Creek Visiotor Center trailhead
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WOODS CANYON
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Andy Beeler leads: checking the map
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We start from the new VOC Ranger Station
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The worst spot is at the neginning: an unbridged ditch
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Woods Canyon runs behind Horse Mesa
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Entering the Canyon
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Our first water break
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A frog silently hugs the rock face beside the trail
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Moving on...
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The Hot Loop trail forks here, heading up onto the mesa
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Dry Beaver Creek is now swollen with last night's rain, plus snowmelt
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The flow from Rattlesnake Canyon, also normally dry, joins Dry Beaver
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This is our break spot
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We find our lunch spot
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Starting back...
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Almost at trail's end, we find this shell-embedded boulder
