Christopher Creek Summer Fun!

Yesterday we took an adventure out of the heat and into the mountains just east of Payson with some friends of ours. The Phoenix magazine recently featured a big article focusing on the best hiking/swimming holes in Arizona. "The Box" at Christopher Creek Canyon caught my eye and I managed to persuade everyone into finding this trail that is definitely off the beaten path. Located between two mile posts we kept missing the "dirt path" that was supposed to be apparent from the highway. We found it after a few trys. First we hiked in the wrong direction. Then we hiked in another wrong direction. Alas, we found an arrow made of stones that pointed us in the right direction. Ahhh, of course, an arrow made of rocks surrounded by a lot of other rocks and dirt. How could anyone miss such a sign?



The scenery was beautiful.







Pregnant Desirae was such a good sport.



Look really hard or click on the picture to make it bigger. The swimming holes are the brown pools of water you see. I guess rain does make pools of water murky. Either way, water is water and fun to play in!