Heading up the trail as it circumnavigates around the hills prior to dropping into the drainage |
A look back at where we came from, the valley that Glenwood, Buckhorn and Cliff sit in |
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A cholla just getting a good start |
A view of the trail as it comes around the mountain |
As noted above, water in the drainage is non-existent. It does get more common as you climb the drainage |
A lot further up the drainage the flow picks up and you end up with this |
Finally it gets to even having small pools |
Which Maxie took full advantage of |
This rock had to have fallen from high above. In more current times, it would have set off the earthquake sensors |
I was fascinated by the three little knobs of new growth. The small green projections are soft and pliable now. Later: not so much |
On the way out, a last shot of the valley east of the San Francisco mountains |
We have trail hazards in Idaho to be sure... but nothing like this |