Day 37 - Fay Canyon, Boynton Vista

Proof-positive I'll never be a wildlife photographer. In the picture centre is one of our local Javelina population, the little wild pigs that live around here. A huge herd of them walked past our living room windows this morning, during morning coffee, complete with babies and everything. There's at least 20 in the herd. My camera is never less than 150 yards away in this house, and I swear I ran it like a 95 year-old Ben Johnson. Best I could do.

Part 1 of today's hike: Fay Canyon. The trailhead, as always, looks innocent enough.

The first part of the trail winds through the familar Dark Forest.

Modern Shooter - they used to carrry guns on their hips in these here parts.

Enormous cliffs loom over the trail, but we press on.

We saw this matrix pattern a year ago on the trees up in Madera Canyon, south of Tucson. We thought it was unique to the area - now here it is in Vortex Central. Could the vortexes be sending their energetic pulses all that way south? Wow. Watch out Mexico.

Fay Canyon's marked trail ends in a box at the top of the canyon. This is the view back.

Pushing on into out-of-bounds, up a pretty hard-scrabble rock face, we are rewarded with views back to Courthouse Rock (center) and Bell Rock (the little bump to the right of Courthouse).

It gets really sketchy at this point, with giant walls surrounding us.

Emma regards the pending scramble back down.

The canyon finally boxes us out completely at this crazy overhang.

The view from as high as we dared.

The guardian of Fay Canyon watches over as Russ descends from the verboten territory.

Part 2 of today's hike: the Boynton Vista. We formerly promised not to visit Vortexes, but we decided to see what the fuss is all about.

Wendy's hat rivals Boynton's hat. The Vortex is imperceptible. Or sulking.

Vortexers constantly scan for vortexes.

The vortexes made me do it.

 

 

 

 

 

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