It was too hot again. And the hike is 8 miles round trip. OH what a big mistake. I about died! Sidney Jade twisted her ankle. We ran out of water, and Drex had to save us all.
We were about two miles from the top (going steeply up) and all of us were out of water. Drex offered to go and get some more out of the car (that is two miles out, and two back in to where we were, and two more back out to the car again. Drex actually had on three packs, his, mine (Tara) and his sisters... and ran out of the canyon! Just so you get a glimpse of what Drex was taking on in 110 degrees).
We agreed and continued slowly climbing out of the canyon.
Drex caught back up to us about 25 minutes later with the water. We had made it about half a mile.
Thank you Big ol boy... you saved us. (by the way, we did go in in with lots of water. Chance had 10 water bottles, Drex had 8, I had 8 and Sidney jade had 6 bottles. So it was not like we went out to hike with no water)
Apparently there were others he encountered on his trek out that had the same issue of water. Drex came up on a lady in her 20's. He paused on his "run" (because that is actually what he was doing out of the canyon) and asked her to get the water bottle out of his pack , which was under my pack and SidneyJade's pack. She told him her story. She and her boyfriend had run out of water. The boyfriend ran the rest of the way out to get her more water as she slowly finished the clime. Drex also saw a lady with several capri sun juice drinks that she was taking in. Drex chatted in passing and she was the one sent to bring back hydration for her husband and little boy.
When Drex got to the car and was dumping the packs. Some guy in a car hollered a greeting something like "good job! you made it out" when Drex explained that he was going back in with water for his family, the guy gave drex some fizzy energy tablets that desolve in water (like vitamin B and such) and a positive words.
It was really nice to see how helpful and kind strangers can be when there is a problem. They all wanted to be as helpful as possible.
In short... Hiking Bad! Just kidding. But Hiking is good in mild weather.
