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| | Canyon Hiking - Non-technical; no rope; easy scrambling; occasional hand use | | B - Up to light current; wading/swimming; possible wet/dry suit | | I - Short 1-2 hours |
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| partners | | I spend a lot of my spare time researching seldom traveled places of Arizona that always involve waterfalls or cascades of some sort. I have a massive list of places I want to go and places I have been. So it's rare when I come across a waterfall in Arizona that I haven't at least seen a photo of or heard about and I don't know what took me so long to finally see, read and check out all the prior triplogs to the Tonto Narrows. I'm a sucker for a good swim hole and waterfalls and this place blew away my expectations. I had such a great day of swimming, cliff jumping and of course plenty of tripod time.
After a day a great day of playing around in paradise and staying too long as usual we finished the last mile of our hike in the dark. When making our final descent down the hillside I spotted a truck drive into the pullout we parked at and then proceeded to stay there for about 5min or so. *side not we were not parked on private property and stayed well clear of any private land throughout our entire hike. I thought it was very strange the truck did that so we got a lil giddy up in or step to make it back to the SUV with urgency. Upon our return to the vehicle we saw that no tires were slashed or any obvious damaged occurred, but boy were we in for a surprise! 
Cracked a cold one and ate a celebratory post hike doughnut while we changed out of our wet clothes and put the gear away. I got nice and settled in the passenger seat which is a complete rarity for me since there has literally been only 2 times in the last 5 years that someone else has drove to go out hiking instead of me so I was so happy to just relax and enjoy the drive home listening to some comforting tunes but my hopes were soon to be crushed!
Daniela hops in, closes her door, puts the key in the ignition to start it and NOTHING! ](https://hikearizona.com/dex2/images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
She had just recently had her SUV serviced and even got a brand new battery installed and everything checked out. Her battery was fine and I honestly only know the basics when it comes to auto mechanics, I popped the hood to go inspect what it possibly could be but did not determine what the issue was. We really lucked out with having phone service and my Triple AAA Gold Card that is never used but that day it sure did come in handy!!!
It made for a long night riding back with a tow truck driver named Harold that smoked nearly 8-10 cigarettes within the start of our tow ride all the way back to Mesa lol. My SUV was safe and sound at her place the entire day but I still had to make the long drive back to Surprise to go see a pissed off dog and make sure I get enough to be sleep to be alive for work that day, I at least made it home by 2am. All in all it was such a great day in a place that seemed so out of place and unexpected and it was worth whatever ever Hillbilly Hoopla that possibly occurred to her vehicle, maybe it was nothing or maybe it was Ol Farmer John sending a message not to return. One thing is for sure though, I will definitely be back!  |
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