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hey, we're the ballards! kevin, annie, rhet, and i are loving the southern life here in atlanta, georgia. kevin has a great job as a busy orthopedic physician assistant and i have put my speech-language pathology career on hold for now so i can be at home with my little miss and little man. enjoy our blog, ya'll!

March 14, 2008

"be prepared"....way underrated




in march, kevin and i went on a 3 day/2 night hiking trip to the havasupai village, located in the grand canyon. it is about an 8 mile hike to the village, plus another 2 miles to the camping spot. it was a great, but exhausting trip, all except the part of not bringing the right fuel tank for our mini stove for all of our meals. instead of eating tasty (as tasty as you can get on camping trips), warm food, we ate beef jerky, power bars, and twizzlers for dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner, breakfast and lunch again. one night we just couldn't choke down another teriyaki flavored beef jerky nugget, so we hiked a total of 4 miles, just to eat who-knows-how-old, greasy processed nachos (hold the meat please) at the local village. i think we will check our precious stove before we leave next time. here's what we saw...



this is just after about a mile of downhill switch-backs looking into a part of the grand canyon.


havasu falls


















mooney falls

















some other falls too big to be named












we had to cross the river several
times to get down the canyon
kev filling up from a natural spring

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