Hellhole Canyon - the southern route

 Supe told us about the southern route of Kayenta's Hellhole Canyon.  Imagine that, after all the years we've gone up the northern trail of the canyon, we had never gone down the part south of the road where the trailhead is.  It is an amazing little canyon with lots of interesting features.  It's not such a gigantic and majestic trail as the other with its' towering cliffs, but we loved doing it yesterday during a cool, sunny afternoon get out of the house at last time.  Paul has been a little under the weather lately and we've stayed in because of the rain and because of that.  I was getting just about ready to go nuts!  So I was glad that we could go someplace close and not too long, but beautiful!  We went down the first half and decided to stop at a point where you needed to use a rope to go down into another layer of the canyon.  Instead we explored a little side canyon.  Then on the drive out we found what looked like the bottom of the first canyon and decided to hike up it to the the point where we had stopped before if we could.  There ended up being a really great trail to get there and we enjoyed seeing the whole thing!  It was probably about 4 miles total.  The weather was perfect and we can't wait to go back and see this place when the leaves come out and it's not so wet from all of the rain.  SO GOOD TO GET OUTSIDE and explore a new place!