One hundred twenty miles north of Phoenix is Flagstaff, Arizona. This photo looking north towards Flagstaff is of the San Francisco Peaks, part of Mt. Humphries. Mt. Humphries stands at 12,633 ft. (3850 meters) but is believed to have once stood at over 16,000 ft. (4876 meters) prior to blowing its top in a volcanic eruption. The snow from this weekend will melt quickly as temperatures are expected to rise dramatically over the next few days. My drive took me up through Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, past Slide Rock into Flagstaff. I was going to return via Lake Mary and Mormon Lake, but those minor backcountry roads were still too snowy.

Update: above this post is the original photo and text that was shared here on the blog you are visiting. In 2023, while reviewing what I posted so many years ago, I decided to update some posts where I took other photos worth sharing, but bandwidth limitations at the time stopped me. Now, those concerns are no longer valid, and so for my wife and I to better enjoy our old posts, I’m adding other photos and text that might help fill out the day.

As I stated in the old post, I first drove through Sedona.

At the time, I don’t Caroline and I had much experience with seeing Sedona dusted with snow, but I’m only guessing, as it’s been far too many years between then and now for me to have an accurate enough memory to state that as fact.

This is why EVERYONE should blog about their adventures, as the details are ultimately lost to time unless you have something that allows you to return to them.

In the summer, this location, known as Slide Rock in Sedona, is a super popular spot to do as the name says, slide down the rocks through the creek.

Driving into Oak Creek Canyon, the opportunity to stop for photos is very limited. This concludes my brief update.