Prickly pear cacti (Opuntia)
My Secret Place
Surreal rock colors and formations
Difficult to access creek
Towers from left to right: Mongoose and Sari (yes, they are climbed)
Above a hidden canyon
One-lane road access and watch for flash floods
24 stream crossings
Hindu (yes, it is climbed)
Peak flows carrying today's mountain snowmelt won't arrive until wee morning hours
Poppymallow (Sphaeralcea coccinea)
Prickly pear about to blossom... big-time
Professor Valley
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Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Perhaps we should go back in the worst heat of summer! Those stream crossings are a blast!!!
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