We were lucky to be in the desert at a time when wildflowers were still in bloom. I tried to identify many of them after the fact with my Field Guide to the Grand Canyon, but had no idea what they were then, just nifty nifty nifty. This I believe to be Prince's Plume (Stanleya Pinnata).

We left Seligman around 6:30, arrived at Hualapai Hilltop around 8:30, and started our descent. Arrived in the village of Supai midafternoon and kicked back in the heat. Lots of rocks and cliffs and sky and trail photos, plus flowers, dogs, horses, mules and even antelope.

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elf1 > Here's looking back up towards the trailhead where we started. The trail is mostly out of sight to the left of this photo, but then cuts across the cliff face to the top of the plateau (Hualapai Hilltop), which is at the middle top of this photo.

elf1 > Following most of the horses and mule trains, and some of the hikers, came the Havasupai trail dogs. They apparently just decide that it looks like more fun to follow someone up 8 miles of trail and then back again than to hang around in the village.

elf1 > Mule trains (in both directions) were quite common on Monday when we were heading in on Monday, but we didn't see many when we came out on Wednesday.

elf1 > Everything in the village comes in one of three ways: By human power, by horse or mule, or by helicopter. That's it.

elf1 > The pack horses and mules mostly ran ahead of the one or two men on horseback, whose encouraging whistles and yells followed them all the way up the trail. The animals didn't much care whether you were in their path. We knew that we had to give them right-of-way, but learned pretty quickly that you really had to get up and off the trail like Linda did here or you could get side-swiped.

elf1 > The mule trains consisted of a combination of horses and mules.

elf1 > Pack-animal Linda waits for the four-legged pack animals to go by.

elf1 > Looking ahead at another switchback. You can see that we've already come a long way down from the upper lands but still have a long way to go down.

elf1 > We were lucky to be in the desert at a time when wildflowers were still in bloom. I tried to identify many of them after the fact with my Field Guide to the Grand Canyon, but had no idea what they were then, just nifty nifty nifty. This I believe to be Prince's Plume (Stanleya Pinnata).

We were lucky to be in the desert at a time when wildflowers were still in bloom. I tried to identify many of them after the fact with my Field Guide to the Grand Canyon, but had no idea what they were then, just nifty nifty nifty. This I believe to be Prince's Plume (Stanleya Pinnata).