wasted the night before we arrived. The night continued and
after getting over our fear of scorpions and woodrats (which
were apparently feasting on their dinner outside our cabin
this evening before our arrival. Awesome.), we sat twelve
feet up on top of a trailer at 2 am. Viewing the Milky Way at
180degrees and about 17 shooting stars in the middle of the
desert in complete silence formed a night into nothing short
of all the memories we were promised. Exhausted, tipsy and
still laughing about what the heck we were doing, we turned
in, headed to our small camper and prayed the wood rats
wouldn’t eat us before the roosters woke us up at 4:30 am.
Unable to sleep post rooster alarm, we threw clothes on and
watched the worlds most magnificent sunrise light up the
landscape little by little. We held the baby goats, got chased
by some roosters, packed it up, ate some muffins, snagged
some coffee and headed back to the park.
Prepared to hike, properly dressed with copious amounts
of water in our backpacks, we selected a few begi nner to
intermediate trails and hiked all day.
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