We said goodbye to the Grand Canyon this morning at 8:00 a.m. What a beautiful national park. We got to Sedona in about two hours and stopped in at the Visitor's Center. We got a lot of good information from the ranger on the various hiking trails and area sights. We changed into our hiking clothes and hiked the Bell Rock Pathway and a portion of the Courthouse Butte Loop. These were listed as easy and moderate trails. The trails were not marked very well and at times we were not sure where the trail was taking us. We climbed up onto Bell Rock and had a great view of the area. We drove down the road a short distance and visited the Church of the Holy Cross. The chapel has a cross that juts from a 1,000 foot high rock wall and soars 90 feet into the air. We spent some time in the chapel before moving onto our next hiking location.
We decided to try to hike Catherdral Rock. This is a short .6 mile trail that is listed as being strenuous. It was short and strenuous and involved a lot of rock scrambling. We got about 3/4 of the way up the trail and decided to turn around. While going up was difficult, the coming down was going to be even more challenging. So, we decided to end our day while the going was still good.
We had a pizza dinner and decided to call it a night.
Pictures can be seen at: https://picasaweb.google.com/tschick62/SedonaDay1?authkey=Gv1sRgCM35kKf-q4yMuQE#
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