It had been some time overdue, (previous Sedona trip was cancelled) but finally, my wife Ana, her 2 kid brothers, and I headed out to Sedona, AZ after work Friday evening, and got into Beaver Creek Campground, 17 miles south of Sedona, sometime around 1 AM local time. Setting up camp at night is a breeze now, as I just hit a switch and have 2 work lights on the back of the rig light up the area... Once we set up out the tents, we slept with the sound of the creek putting us to sleep. Well, not really, because you see it was COLD, high 20s low 30s cold at night and we really weren't fully prepared with the right sleeping bags...Bottom line is it took us a while to finally get to sleep because of the cold. Everything was frozen around us.
After Ana thanked God for daylight, and sun rays..we slowly unfroze and had a nice breakfast at camp and drove into town to see the place...walk a trail...do some sightseeing...and stuff....Then, it was off to one of my "concessions" which was to run 2 trails while we were in Sedona. Of course I had to run Broken Arrow, so we drove over to Broken Arrow and had a blast...Ana is not a fan of off roading..nor are her kid brothers, but the views and vistas got her into the mood as she took pic after pic of the great scenery around us. Her kid brothers, well they enjoyed this as well. Day 1, a hit.
Afterwards, we did a bit of fishing at the creek...but had no luck with catching any..(just a few days previously Sedona saw a powerful storm which swelled the river, thus taking all the fish down river....) We enjoyed some nice Italian sausages and carne asada for dinner...roasted marsh mallows...and called it a night...This time the boys slept in the car much more comfortably, while Ana and I had a much better night as well.
Sunday morning we got up, packed everything up, and ran Oak Creek Homestead, a scenic, picturesque trail with a fun, steep shelf road section. Day 2, a hit as well.
For the drive home, we took the scenic way home, thru the 89, to the 71….to the 60 and finally the 10 fwy. The most memorable part was driving up the 7400 ft. elevation pass between Jerome and Prescott, AZ.
Overall, this was a great camping trip. I can’t wait to go back to Sedona, perhaps during a warmer time of year.
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After Ana thanked God for daylight, and sun rays..we slowly unfroze and had a nice breakfast at camp and drove into town to see the place...walk a trail...do some sightseeing...and stuff....Then, it was off to one of my "concessions" which was to run 2 trails while we were in Sedona. Of course I had to run Broken Arrow, so we drove over to Broken Arrow and had a blast...Ana is not a fan of off roading..nor are her kid brothers, but the views and vistas got her into the mood as she took pic after pic of the great scenery around us. Her kid brothers, well they enjoyed this as well. Day 1, a hit.
Afterwards, we did a bit of fishing at the creek...but had no luck with catching any..(just a few days previously Sedona saw a powerful storm which swelled the river, thus taking all the fish down river....) We enjoyed some nice Italian sausages and carne asada for dinner...roasted marsh mallows...and called it a night...This time the boys slept in the car much more comfortably, while Ana and I had a much better night as well.
Sunday morning we got up, packed everything up, and ran Oak Creek Homestead, a scenic, picturesque trail with a fun, steep shelf road section. Day 2, a hit as well.
For the drive home, we took the scenic way home, thru the 89, to the 71….to the 60 and finally the 10 fwy. The most memorable part was driving up the 7400 ft. elevation pass between Jerome and Prescott, AZ.
Overall, this was a great camping trip. I can’t wait to go back to Sedona, perhaps during a warmer time of year.
pics here….
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