Wet Beaver Creek Apr 17
A hike up the Bell Trail paralleling We Beaver Creek, as far as the Notch swimming hole
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WET BEAVER CREEK
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Sign at the beginning of the trail
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The entire trail follows Wet Beaver Creek, so there is not muchchange in level until the climb to the Rim, six miles away
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A curled caterpillar
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The pit houses
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Hedgehogs in bloom
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Junction of the Apache Maid trail
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A dead shagbark juniper
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The side trail to the gauging station
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Weir at the gauging station
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Midmornig break at the gauging station
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We continue onward
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The gauging station from above
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This ocotillo is almost ready to bloom
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A basalt intrusion dike, where magma squeezed up through a vertical crack in the sandstone
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A butterfly on a prickly pear
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First sight of The Notch, the largest swimming hole and our goal for the day
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The pools above the swimming hole
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The petroglyph rock
