Ferguson Canyon

Ferguson Canyon can be reached from a neighborhood just slightly south of Big Cottonwood Canyon. In fact we could see into the mouth of Big Cottonwood from part of our trail.

Once in the canyon the trail is shady and easy (at first).

We rested on some rocks here. We were by a stream and we liked this crazy natural arch:

Some of the trail:

The trail is between the stream and that big rock:

We came to an area with about four rock climbing walls. They all had metal rings hammered into them.

Some climbers using one of the walls:

The canyon brought us to a very slippery and steep bit of trail, which we went up to get close to a waterfall:

We learned from other people that there are about four more waterfalls beyond this, but without our hiking poles to get us up and down, we decided to save it for another day.

We did enjoy this one though:

I am trying to identify the wildflowers that I see on these walks now.

This was at the very start of the walk. The closest ID I can come up with is a Brown Eyed Susan (Big maybe):

Bicknell's Geranium:

Thimble berry:

I also Identified a lavender colored Spider Flower; Rocky Mtn Bee plant, but my photo was blurry. I learned that the Navajo cooked and ate this plant to save themselves from starvation at times.

I'm no botanist, but I figure if I'm going to hike all of the time, I might as well know what I'm looking at.