Thirteenmile — Thursday, May. 11, 2017

We did this hike as an alternate to the currently inaccessible Hoodoo Canyon trail. We were driving towards Keller after not being able to access Hoodoo and stumbled upon this trail. We only hiked in a couple of miles since it was getting late. We found a nice spot with water close by and nice views of the canyon walls. We could also hear the river down in the canyon. When we first set up camp we did start to hear some fighter jets flying over. This went on for about 45 minutes. We got to see a grand finale of two of them flying right up the canyon very low. Kind of neat. I was just glad that was the last pass. Totally quiet after that. Just the birds and the river. This hike was really a nice accidental find. A very nice early season hike. We did not see any snakes or larger animals nor any sign of any.  Do bring bug repellant. Lots of mosquitos.