Today our packs were back to being relatively light, thank goodness. We hiked out of Ruby and toward Sapphire, our hopeful destination for the evening. We knew there would be water there. We got there in the early afternoon, and we split up to look for good campsites. Rose is always on the lookout for cool-looking rocks, so I came back with one for her… a sapphire ring! I asked her to marry me, and she said yes! We hung out in the canyon for the rest of the afternoon, letting the exciting news sink in and waiting out the heat of the day. We didn’t find any good campsites down in the side canyon, so in the evening we hiked a mile or so out to the Tonto Platform to camp out there.