Marchiene and I met up at 9 a.m. We took off for El Shaddai, a volcanic vent that is connected with House Mountain. It is a dormant volcano and the only volcano in the Verde Valley. There are several volcanic vents in Sycamore Canyon, but El Shaddai is the only one outside of the canyon. […]
Copyright Marchiene Reinstra 2011 All Rights Reserved El Shaddai is the name I call a large mountain right in our back yard. It is a volcanic vent and directly connected to House Mountain, the extinct volcano that dominates this area. El Shaddai is Hebrew for “Mighty Breasted God” associated with mountains. El Shaddai does look […]
Copyright 2009 Eileen Nauman All Rights Reserved Marty and I started out our trek around 9 a.m. on April 7th. It was a clear, cloudless day and the temperature in the 60s. It was an easy path around “Sugar Loaf” the rounded red sandstone formation. Here is “Sugar Loaf” as it is known locally. For us, […]
Marty Reinstra and I try to hike once a week together. Today, we brought her flute and I brought my 200-year-old Tibetan drum. She’d chosen Rainbow Bridge trail (it’s also known as Devil’s Bridge Trail) where there was a beautiful sandstone arch, to hike to. She had a copy of Sedona, Sacred Earth book by […]