SEDONA HIKE with COTTONWOOD Zone 12/12

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Monday we were invited to hike up in Sedona by the Cottonwood Zone.  We love hiking and love Sedona and love our missionaries, so this was an easy fit!


It was incredibly beautiful and even warm for this northern part of our mission.


We had WONDERFUL TOUR GUIDES,
Brother and Sister Bues, who guided our trail and taught Geology along the way!

 We did about a 5 mile loop around Cathedral Butte, and then did a side trip to go see some ruins up on the side.

 We got to do a little steep climbing, but mostly it was pretty tame.

 We loved learning about the different kinds of rock; the sandstone and the limestone layers of these buttes.

 The Indian ruins way up on the side, were worth the trip to go and see.  History in front of our eyes; up close and personal!

 We could even see where there had been a fire place and a grinding stone there in front.

You can see that we had to watch our steps very carefully on the loose stones on top of this steep wall.  It was almost straight down from where we walked, but we had an experienced guide and we were very cautious.

We got a kick out of the cactus everywhere, especially coming down this section.


President had a run in with a cholla cactus that got spikes all over his knee and took a bit of doing to get them all out.  I got a few behind my knee somehow as well.

Brother Bues is a retired Geologist and does tour groups and lectures frequently in the area.  This is the first full zone he has taken out, and we were so grateful for he and his sweet wife for taking more than 4 hours from their day for us!

These were some of the views that we had as we hiked.  Does this make you want to come see our mission someday?
We have a variety of landscape equal to many exotic places!

Learning about sandstone...He is holding a slab that is about 1/2 inch thick, really neat!

Something else really neat...Elder Moore's father grew up in Camp Verde, where Elder Moore is now serving.  He has a high school tee shirt from the school his Dad attended.  How wonderful is that?

We have amazing missionaries, an amazing mission area and amazing members who share their talents with us.

WE LOVE ARIZONA!