Slickhorn Perfect Kiva
Arizona Strip & Southern Utah Wanderings | Day 7
Friday, October 12, 2012
Sometime after midnight the skies finally opened up and it started raining. There was a little lightning and thunder, too. It would rain harder and softer but remained pretty constant for the rest of the night. Around the time we wanted to get up in the morning it started to rain the hardest yet, with a few close lighting strikes. We waited in our dry tents for the storm to let up so that we could finally get outside.
When the rain finally stopped for a short time I got out of my tent and snapped this photo. There was a small wash next to our tents that was flowing pretty good. We were high enough that it didn’t affect us.
Wet Camp by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Shortly after we got out of our tents, this rainbow appeared across the desert.
Desert Rainbow by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
Our original plan for the day was to hike the Slickhorn Canyon #1 and #2 loop, but I wasn’t up for hiking the loop in the pouring rain and neither was Jared. We could see more storms approaching, so we decided to drive over to the top of the Moki Dugway so I could get some cell signal and check the weather forecast.
While driving back to the highway we spotted a small double rainbow in the distance.
Rainbows & Jeep by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr