Although the Grand Canyon was amazing, the real highlight of the time in Flagstaff was visiting the nearby state park of Sedona. This is an area of amazing red sandstone and green forests, and we spent a day there hiking and swimming in the rivers. We did the hike first, a knackering treck up to cathedral rock, which is one of the impressive lumps of uneroded sandstone that are dotted around the park. It was unbelievably hot, so having climbed back down the hill, we headed for a couple of spots by the river to swim and cool off. At the second of these was a 30 ft high cliff off of which people were jumping into the river below. Not really sure what came over me, Mike and Matt, but we decided to give it ago, and it genuinely was terrifying, it was such a big drop that as I fell I had a lot of time to think about just how incredibly stupid I was being, and just how little I could do about it! The video footage, taken with much style by Beth, tells the story much better than I can.