Meet your guide in Payson, Arizona, the Home of the World's Oldest Continuous Rodeo, for a 7 AM start. Begin your six-hour canyon tour with an easy drive along the Mogollon Rim, surrounded by high country mountain views. Keep your eyes open for elk, deer, mountain lions, turkeys, black bears, coatimundis, or the newly re-introduced Mexican gray wolf.

Leave the van behind and head out cross-country, navigating your way through a pine tree forest. Once in the canyon bottom, test your swimming and rock hopping skills. The route becomes more adventurous as slides, waterfalls, and down climbs create fun obstacles to decipher. At times, the best way may be sliding, jumping, being lowered, or rappelling to continue the journey.

The adventure culminates as your group reaches the edge of a waterfall. With nowhere to go but down, gear up for a thrilling rappel into the deep pool below. The adventure is not over yet, as more full-body exercise continues until the trip abruptly leaves the water behind and cuts out cross-country once more.

Afterward, pile into the shuttle vehicle and enjoy the smooth drive back into civilization, exhausted and happy en route to Payson.