Our destination today took us to Slate Canyon. We hiked there pretty early in the day and decided it’d be fun to camp at the river again. The rangers at the village told us about a route for scrambling to the river from the trail here. It ended up being a little intense, but we managed to get down and worked our way to the bottom of Slate to the infamous Crystal Rapids. We took dips in the freezing water and hung out for most of the day on the little beach there. It would be hard to stop here by boat because the canyon opens up right into the rapids, and the scramble to get here on foot wasn’t for the faint of heart either, so it really felt like a secluded spot to spend the night.