Ryan and I knew that we had to end living in Arizona with a bang, so of course Havasupai Falls was the finishing trip of this fun 4 year journey! We invited Ryan's brothers and best friend Greg with his with Katie. We headed out to a campground about 90 minutes away from the trailhead the night before. We had to "carb load" for the 10 mile hike in, so we ate at good ole Texas Roadhouse.
As you can tell, the boys were pretty excited to get to the trailhead
All ready to go, 10 miles of pure bliss.
The hike was beautiful. We pretty much walked in a dry river bed that formed all the rocks for about the first 8 miles.
Taking a water break around mile 6.
At mile 8, we made it to Supai, the Native American village, but we still had 2 miles to go. I will admit the town was very surprising to walk through, not much there but the native's homes, some farm land and a lot of starving horses. Very sad and frustrating to see, but the people were well fed. To our surprise there is a LDS/Mormon branch in the village.
After 10 miles, we finally made it! This was our first view going down into the canyon. This is Little Navajo Falls. There was a big drought years back and when the rain came it redirected the falls and made them a lot smaller then what they used to be.
The most amazing thing to see at the end of 10 miles was Havasua Falls to the right of the trail.
After about 3 1/2 to 4 hours of hiking were found a beautiful spot to camp where the river is divided into three and we camped in-between two of the rivers. There were many lizards and frogs around to be caught.
We decided to go and explore one of the waterfalls for the afternoon that was just a little ways from our camp ground called Mooney Falls. This was the craziest waterfall ever! Pretty sure that if Havasupai was a national park you wouldn't be able to get down to Mooney Falls, but because it is on a reservation its free game. The trail was a blown out tunnel in the hillside with chain ropes to hang on to. I don't think that the pictures do it justice of how steep the decent was, but it was a thrill.
Headed down the tunnel, this is the nice warning sign "Descend At Own Risk"
Three Hermonos
We swam and played in the waterfall and all the little pools till dinner time, which was some amazing spaghetti. Pretty sure no one complained about going to bed early that night.
Day 2 at Havasua we decided to hike back up to Havasua Falls and play around their in the morning then head to another falls in the after noon. We jumped off a bunch of little falls and played in the big pool area till about lunch time.
We headed to Beaver Falls, which was a 3 mile hike down the canyon. It was a beautiful hike and such a beautiful reward at the end!
We had so much fun jumping off the water falls. Such a fun way to end the day. We headed back to camp for some delicious dinner of mash potatoes with soup.
The next morning, we woke up super early to hit the trail, 10 miles back to the car. Except unlike the time in with fresh feet, a few of us had been wounded with some big blisters and cuts. But to say the least we made it out it good timing, about 4 to 4 1/2 hours.
Havasupai Falls was so BEAUTIFUL and AMAZING! The water was at 70 degrees and nothing but sunshine. We will definitely be back, hopefully with more family next time!!
This looks amazing!! We want to come next time!!
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