Homeschool continues, as do experiments in wheat-free cooking. See Tricia’s Blog for details:
We drove out from the Coyote Buttes area and headed East towards Page, Arizona. On the way, we pulled off to hike to The Toadstools:
Hiking up a wash, we had to climb up a dry waterfall:
At last we reached The Toadstools:
The kids captured some photographs as well:
Farther along we reached the white toadstools:
Great views abound here:
South of The Toadstools is a formation called The Nautilus. BLM actively suppresses directions to The Nautilus online, so it took a bit of work to figure out where to start looking. We hiked up a wash for about half a mile:
B enters The Nautilus:
The Nautilus is a corkscrew-shaped slot canyon. B hikes around and up The Nautilus:
Looking down from the top:
After finishing up here, we continued East to Page, Arizona to overnight at the Walmart there. See the trip map for details.