Posts Tagged: Arizona

In the early summer of 2011, I traveled to Sedona for a brief vacation before starting my summer job. The town of Sedona itself is nestled in the red rock country of central Arizona. It’s surrounded by beautiful rock formations, deserts, and mountains. We spent the first few days relaxing and hiking in the area around the town. On one particularly memorable day, we explored Native American ruins near Sedona. We visited a nearby state park with some small cliff dwellings and painted caves.

I grew up backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but for most of my childhood, I hadn’t done much backpacking anywhere else. So the summer after my eighth grade year, I spent three weeks on trip through the American southwest on a trip with nine other students my age. We met at Oakland International Airport and flew to Las Vegas, where we met our trip leaders, Courtney and Porter. We spent almost all of the first day driving to Zion National Park in southwestern Utah.