TBall & Bridges

This last couple weeks have been mostly filled with Mara working in the PICU, and on her short time away we've been climbing a bit, and going on some long bike rides.
The last weekend Mara had off we took advantage and headed North to camp (while the temps are still above freezing at night).  We just camped the one night since Rohan had TBall and a friends birthday party on Saturday morning, but afterwards we met up with Angelika and headed North.  We had plans to visit the Tonto Natural Bridge so we decided to find a forest road to camp on nearby.  We ended up about 6.5mi into the forest in an AWESOME clearing beneath some massive pines.  It was also maiden voyage for our new tent.  The fire was an excellent way to chill out and stay warm while the temps dipped down to low-40s.  We made some hot coco and relaxed well into the night.
Sunday morning we got up and warmed up with some oatmeal and cheesy eggs before heading to the bridge.  I was always unimpressed when they talked about the "Natural Bridge".  I've seen arches in Arches National Park, so how different could a bridge be?

Rohan was an absolute trooper, hiking almost 2 miles on his own through rough trail and over boulders that were at least his height, and sometimes much higher.  We visited the waterfall trail first, which had a really cool suspension trail, before heading down the canyon trail to the "bridge".  We stopped at a really fun cave we explored extensively before spying the bridge just around the corner.  How different are arches & bridges?  For one thing the arches are probably 20-30ft wide..the bridge was 400+ft long, and absolutely stunning.  The pictures don't quite do it justice.

Enjoy the pictures!