After the death defying hike of day 2, day 3 was a laundry day and a trip into Cottonwood for lunch. We stopped into Crema Craft Kitchen & Bar which makes it our 3rd visit. Quaint little outside patio with great food and cappuccino’s.
Day 4 it was time for another hike but with Lori’s quad muscle still giving her problems we needed a hike that wouldn’t entail too much climbing. Given that we had lost our faith in the ratings provided by the various hiking guides we decided to take a hike that we had done previously. The Bell Rockway and Courthouse Butte pathway provides a series of trails that we had taken before and knew it was easy to navigate with great views. A $5. Red Rock pass is required and can be purchased at a vending machine at the trailhead. The trail was as we remembered. It was about 4 miles and took us about 2 1/2 hours with a stop for lunch on the trail.
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| Not a lot of flowers out at this elevations but these ones were quite showy |
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| It was a cloudy day and these poppies hadn't opened yet. Still very pretty. |
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| These flowers decided to form a ring around one of the trail markers. |
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| A striking contrast in colours |
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| We had let Charli go as we navigated down a steep part of the trail. She got to a wash and took off. No amount of calling would bring her back. The smell of fresh horse manure in the wash led her on. Scrumtous. |
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| One of the side trails |
Thats about it for Camp Verde. Saturday we will be up early for a long drive to Moab, Ut.
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