havasupai

i had a cool opportunity to go hike in the grand canyon in the havasupai tribe lands and for work!  so all expenses paid, i just had to spend the trip with a bunch of teenage girls :)  but it was well worth it.  10 mile hike in and 10 miles out - which was a bit more difficult since the last mile and a half are pretty much straight up the side of the grand canyon and it was only 100 degrees!  havasupai means people of the blue-green water and boy was that water beautiful.  if you want more information on what this place is, you can check out http://havasupaitribe.com/ but i will share with you some pictures that i took but they really don't do the place justice! those of you that have been there before will notice how different it is since after the big flood a couple of years ago - i had never been so it was all new and beautiful to me.  ps i can't post pictures of the girls because of confidentiality reasons, so there are a lot more pictures, but only a few that i can share. 

the start of the hike - you can kind of see the trail going through the canyon

 our camp site right next to the water

 havasu falls

 light painting - i actually tripped in this picture hence the trail of light at the bottom, i'll have to tell you the story sometime...

 a little ways down from mooney falls

 mooney falls

 rock falls

 rock falls