Friday, January 2, 2009

South Mountain

                                                         This is in the bigger building.
                                                                                           
This is Ari with the hat,then Asher and Rhys. They are at the smaller building.

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Yesterday we went on a hike to South Mountain. It was really fun and enjoyable.  It was a slightly hard hike because, being Arizonian mountains,  it was extremely sandy and rocky. There were many steep areas and and on the way down from the peak, they were so slippery, that Ari fell down and then pulled me down also when I grabbed his hand. I also think Dad is amazing because he did all this  with Bram asleep on his back.                                                                                                             But it was very fun and along the way there  were many rocks  that the boys climbed and that had tunnels in them.  There was also a fort looking building, made out of rocks. One was like a one-room house and the other like the gathering room. It was big with benches and two mini  fire-places. Also, there was this big rock and it had Indian hieroglyphs, [hopefully I spelled that right], which were fun to look at. 
   When we were almost done with our hike and we were heading towards the parking lot and Asher was leading  the way when my Dad saw a coyote. He yelled to Asher to stop and I yelled and then Asher looked up. He didn't see the coyote though and both Dad and I were surprised. The coyote was twenty feet in front of him.  Dad concluded that the coyote saw Asher and might've been hungry  and wanted to get him because the coyote didn't stop until he saw me and Rhys walk up behind Asher. It was amazing and we saw its footprints in the sand when we got closer to where the coyote was. 
 All in all, it was a pretty fun hike and I had tons of fun! 

7 comments:

  1. That looks like a great hike! We will have to come and do it with you sometime. Would you be willing to do it again?

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  2. I'm glad your out enjoying the beautiful AZ winter, that seems like a really interesting hike. Coyotes are funny...I almost ran right into one(literally)about a year ago. I love your blog. Hannah likes your name-she said "Oh like Hello Kitty-but it's Hello Kat-Cute" Happy New Year!

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  3. The coyote thing would have scared me to death!!

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  4. That looks so fun!! I agree the coyote thing would also scare me to death!! Hey your blog is way cute

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  5. Thank you all for commenting! Thanks for all the complements and the coyote thing wasn't that bad. I would be glad to do it again!

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  6. I think that would have been kindof cool to see a coyote up close, I would have been scared at the same time though! What a fun hike. We are knee deep in snow up here and it is COLD. I keep getting stuck in the snow and my neighbor has to come and dig me out with his tractor.

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