Keystone Canyon / La Madre Wash - 3/21/24
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View up to the Keystone Thrust Fault Area White Rock Wash Keystone Canyon Wash to Cactus Hill to La Madre Mountain Range Will someone get this girl some clippers! There were eleven club members who arrived at the lower White Mountain Road Trailhead near mile marker 6 of the Red Rock Canyon NCA Scenic Loop Drive. It was an experienced and fun group but most had never climbed up through Keystone Canyon as the "normal" way is to descend. We started down the Grand Loop Trail across the scenic loop and dropped down to the junction with the Keystone Canyon Wash ..read more
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Rainbow Gardens Crest Loop - 3/11/24
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Lava Butte from Rainbow Gardens Crest Trail Rainbow Gardens Canyon Old Buffet Boys Cairn Just us girls in the Wide Wash There were three of us on a slightly breezy morning at mile marker 2 of Northshore Road, the Rainbow Gardens Trailhead for hiking. This is yet another beautifully colorful area that is easily reached with a small hike. The pink elephant in the room, of course, is the 2871' Lava Butte. That doesn't sound like much, however, the cone shaped butte's surrounding elevation at the base is only 1400'. This difference of 1469' is remarkably daun ..read more
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Redstone / Jean's Canyon Loop - 2/24/24
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Inside the Redstone Slot View from Jean's Saddle Jean's Canyon Redstone Newly engaged John and Deborah Nestled between the Bitter Spring Valley (named for the bitter taste of springs in this area) and the Hamblin Bay Fault just north of Lake Mead and the Black Mountains, is a place called Redstone. Redstone lies on the south side of Northshore Road between MM 25.5 and MM27.5. It is an area that is filled with Aztec Sandstone and, subsequently, many petroglyphs from ancient native occupants ... if you can find them. There is a picnic area and res ..read more
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Winter Twilight - 2/14/24
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Charleston Peak South Ridge of Charleston Peak Twilight Ridge Burro in Kyle Canyon As Rita and I started out from the Twilight Trailhead on Kyle Canyon Road, this beautiful burro brayed at us from across the canyon. Obviously, he was greeting us from loneliness as there was no other sole around. Why? Idk. The scene from the trailhead was absolutely gorgeous! The snow layered down to around 8000'. We were at the 5000' vicinity. Most remarkable was the deep snow covering the Wilson Ridge. This is the ridge reaching from the La Madre Range over to Harris Pe ..read more
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Jean's Peak Short Loop - 2/12/24
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Spring Mountains and Northshore Road from Jean's Peak Redstone from Jean's Peak Jean's Canyon near its Saddle Mother and Baby Bighorns (look close!) Four club hikers drove out to Northshore Road MM 25 (Call Box TH) for a short but challenging hike up to Jean's Peak and its high point. As we were climbing up the bottom of the approach canyon, we saw a mother bighorn and her kid coming down from the ridge on the right, cross over the canyon we were climbing and climb up the ridge on the left. They posed a couple of times on the cliffs above. We had to look ..read more
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Moenkopi Arch Loop - 2/11/24
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Moenkopi Arch from Trail Red Rock Canyon  Las Vegas Strip on Super Bowl #58 morning 2024 (Dueling Pyramids) Joshua Tree For the high-energy, high-anxiety, high anticipation Super Bowl 58 day, Mike and I went out to the quiet unassuming Moenkopi Trailhead in Red Rock Canyon NCA. It was the perfectly planned calm before the storm. Yes, Super Bowl 58 was being held at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada! The Las Vegas Strip was teeming with helicopters and celebrities. The Strip, itself, was filling with onlookers. Yet, Mike and I had a nice rela ..read more
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South Bowl of Fire - 2/3/24
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1M ago
Group of thirteen in front of the Elephant Arch of the South Bowl of Fire Tafoni rock (aka lace rock) in the South Bowl Approach to South Bowl of Fire Trail to South Bowl of Fire The weather gave us a break and thirteen hikers came out for a relaxing hike in the South Bowl of Fire. This version of the hike has some scrambling that is optional. We parked at Northshore Road MM 18 and found the trail that leads out to the right end of a nearby rocky ridge. The trail leads around the ridge and across the wide wash that includes Callville Wash Road. The marked ..read more
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Cholla Forest - 1/27/24
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2M ago
Cholla Forest The First Dryfall Watching us from Above Tackling the first Dryfall Geez Louise!! What about the washouts in Seven Falls Canyon??? The climbs are more slippery and the falls are deeper! And, one climb has pretty much disappeared. Funny thing, though. The "trickiest" climb (perhaps dryfall #3) is the same. Phew! There were a couple of hiker falls, too, but we all made it out alive. Over the last 15 years that I have been hiking this wonderful hike out to Cholla Forest in Teddy Bear Canyon, I have not noticed such a change from rainfall. We ha ..read more
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Angel Dragon Scramble Loop - 1/24/24
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2M ago
Eleven Scramblers du Jour (I didn't get the wardrobe memo!) Ash Canyon Overlook Dragon Peak above Route Girl Scout Trail It had been three long days of rain and overcast. We were tired of sitting at home without a corner of our universe in which to hike. The rain stopped and the sun peeped out, if only for a couple of hours on the fourth day so, eleven scramblers came out of their burrows for a super-scramble on the wet sandstone ... well aware that that is not always a good idea. We were all very experienced and knew to take our time and be very cautious ..read more
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Lone Palm Loop - 1/20/24
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2M ago
Colorado River at Lone Palm Hot Springs Nevada Monolith at O'Callaghan/Tillman Bridge Overlook Large Pourover on return portion of Loop Old asphalt road Continuation We had eleven hikers on a loop that passes through the Lone Palm hot springs on a cool and overcast day on the Colorado River in Black Canyon. We met at the Kingman Wash Exit Trailhead on the south side of Highway 93 only 2 miles across the border into Arizona. Stepping onto the trail, we turned to the left and dropped down past the square culvert and into the first canyon wash that runs east ..read more
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