Day 215: The Toadstools and The Nautilus

Homeschool continues, as do experiments in wheat-free cooking.  See Tricia’s Blog for details:

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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:

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Hiking up a wash, we had to climb up a dry waterfall:

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At last we reached The Toadstools:

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The kids captured some photographs as well:

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Farther along we reached the white toadstools:

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Great views abound here:

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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:

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B enters The Nautilus:

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The Nautilus is a corkscrew-shaped slot canyon.  B hikes around and up The Nautilus:

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Looking down from the top:

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After finishing up here, we continued East to Page, Arizona to overnight at the Walmart there.  See the trip map for details.

Day 214: Coyote Buttes Slot Canyons
Day 216: Horseshoe Bend and Glen Canyon NRA

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