Second Water trail

 

Rachel Willis invited us to hike with some of her family on Saturday so I invited dad and met up with them.  It really was the perfect day for a hike. Slightly chill at the start, but once you get going just perfect.  Also it was overcast most of the time so perfect for lighting and just nice temperature the whole way along.  This really is Arizona hiking season.  

This head trail is close to Hackberry Springs we hiked last week, and even has a trail that connects them at one point that part of our group went down part ways.  Such a beautiful trail, but there's spots of char along like many of the hikes in the Superstition mountain area since that big fire last year.

It was fun having Dad with is since this is a trail he's very familiar with.  He remembers hiking it as a boy scout, and taking his boys scouts on it as a leader.  I ended up going all the way to the end of the trail where it meets up with Boulder Canyon looking for Elliot and Rupert.  Thankfully they were somewhere else with part of our group.  We learned some lessons this day, like better communication before hand, and snacks and water on every person incase we split up.

Dad had his Run Keeper app going and he hiked about 6 1/2 miles.  Since I went to the end of the trail I got it over 8 miles.  Wasn't part of the plan but I'm glad to know what it's like.  I recognized the end of Second Water trail because I saw it when hiking Boulder Canyon, training for the Grand Canyon last year. We might hike it again later this year.

All in all the kids had great attitudes the whole way.  Not the case when we left the house. ;)  They think they don't like hiking but when we get going they're at the front of the group.  We planned on hiking 3 miles and they did over twice that so I'm proud of them and their hiking abilities.