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A view of Dry Creek from the trail. Dry Creek appears to be appropriately named.
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A short distance into the hike.
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Not far from the start of the trail there is an area that looked destroyed.
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Just what happened to this tree?
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A flower-lined stretch of the trail. I didn't expect to see flowering plants at this time of the year.
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Hakan takes a picture of, what? A cactus growing out of a rock wall? While this is in Dry Creek, it is not on the trail. The trail is about 50 feet to our left.
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Still off the trail exploring with camera. There were some early colors visible, but only in limited areas.
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Dry Creek is just that - DRY - at least at this time of the year.
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CAUTION! Mad rattle snake. My path would have been directly across this snake's head, if it wasn't for the racket it made when I wandered within about 10 feet of it. This is also where the Bear Sign trail heads off to the west from the Dry Creek trail. At this point Hakan and I didn't know that the others had taken the Bear Sign trail. From here we continued up Dry Creek. I also told Hakan that the next time the trail crosses the creek, he leads.
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Another stretch of the creek/trail. Where did all these blue/gray rocks come from?
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The trail crosses the creek again. Views of Sedona red rocks appeared several times along the trail. This is where Hakan ans I turned around and headed back down Dry Creek to try to find the others.
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We found Gigi, Elisa, and Peter along Bear Sign trail. Hakan and I went as far along the trail as indicated by the GPS track shown above (or below). Gigi, Elisa, and Peter of course went further. We stopped and ate lunch at the intersection of Bear Sign and Dry Creek trails. Yup, that is where we saw the rattle snake.
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After lunch Hakan and I went back up Dry Creek.
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This stuff looks like natural graffiti.
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A little more color along the trail.
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This is about the northern most part of the hike on the Dry Creek trail for Hakana and me. It was getting warm (even in Sedona) and we turned around and started back to the trailhead.
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The trailhead is over there, somewhere.
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Total topo view of the hike. The trailhead is at the bottom. The Bear Sign trail heads to the west about 0.7 miles from the trailhead. The Dry Creek trail continues about another 1-2 miles (depending on how hard you push) from the northern most point of this hike.
