Friday Fitness Hike

Bob and I hiked about 4.5 miles starting from the Tom’s Thumb Trailhead.  We explored the Sven Towers area.  We discovered that the descents for Sven Tower II and III don’t go that far down the mountain; they lead to the starts of some of the climbs, which are still fairly high up the mountain.

Sunrise:

A view from the Feldspar Trail, shortly after sunrise.

Two shots of Bob combined into one photo. He’s hiking up one of the low angle slabs which (eventually) leads to the top of Sven Tower I.

Morrell’s Wall and Tom’s Thumb:

Rock Knob:

Getting closer to the top of Sven Tower I…

Bob scrambles up to the next section of granite slab.

Another view of Morrell’s Wall and Tom’s Thumb:

We hiked to the top of that slab (below), but didn’t go much higher. (Bob noticed some bees on the trail leading to the summit.)

A view of the Thumbnail Pinnacle. We didn’t go there this time. (It was quite hot – I drank about 3L of water on our hike.)

Yet another view of Morrell’s Wall and Tom’s Thumb.

I took this shot at the start of the descent for Sven Tower II.

A cool looking rock that we saw much later in the hike.  (Route finding occupied much of my attention in the interim.)

We saw this rabbit early in the hike.

We saw this lizard late in the hike.