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In a nutshell, Rick and his brood climbed Spirit Mountain during  a rain storm. They fell down a bunch of holes. Banged themselves up trying to climb out without the proper equipment. It got dark . Their flashlight batteries gave out.  The almost got stuck several times. All of this during an electrical storm on a mountain .

Seems like a fun outing amirite?

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The fog around the rock formations and mountains gave the place a very eerie sense. Grapevine Canyon and Spirit Mountain

Then visit the entrance to Grapevine Canyon put the two together. Many thought such places were under-worlds, secret ancient caves, UFO visitation areas etc.

Other times the canyon had black walls with many holes in them going a few hundred feet up. You climb over this rock….going into tunnels of rocks…..going up little sandy hills edging the foliage in the center of the canyon. At times the rocks were slippery everything was wet and every part of the canyon had a different type of terrain.

Both paths had thousands of interesting rock formations.

The one thing I could see from above is the canyons surrounding us with all the various colors of rocks and weird rock formations. At times going under rocks….dropping down at times 6 feet etc I would at times lower my sons down if it was high up or catch them as they jumped into my arms holding on.

When we came down into the canyon we were still almost 100 feet above grapevine canyon. Did a UFO hover deep in this canyon causing burning on some of the tops and sides of the rocks.

If my feet slipped once I would fall down the slope and into a hole. I thought if my feet slip from this rock ill fall down the crevice and roll down to the bottom not a fun trip to take.

We had to climb the side of a hill it was steep were talking at times hands and knees climbing down. I felt bad for Tammy because early she was climbing down fell face first on her arm on some wet rocks but just an hour before that in those rocks we were climbing through she slipped and fell on her hip climbing to a lower level. I got so turned around climbing through rocks and such that I was not sure we were even in Grapevine canyon but many other ones that run into spirit mountain.

My son James hit a giant rock it came rolling down towards me.  We went to places in that canyon untouched by even man. Although I visit many places I think my sons, Tammy and I will never forget this place.