Eight of us, Bill, Bill, Heather, Janet, Bob, Linda, Nancy, and I hiked a loop of somewhat over twelve miles. We hiked: Tortoise, Pemberton, Tonto Tank, Pemberton, Boulder, Marcus Landslide, Rock Knob, Pemberton, Bluff Wash, Granite, Wagner.
Dead tree on the Tortoise Trail:
View of Weaver’s Needle and the Flatiron from the Pemberton Trail:
A small wash which feeds into Stoneman Wash, near where Pemberton descends into the wash:
Hiking up the Tonto Tank Trail…
Heather, Bill, Linda, Nancy, Bob, Janet, Bill, and Kevin in front of the McDowells:
I think this is Turpentine Bush:
A view from the Boulder Trail:
A large boulder on the Marcus Landslide Trail:
Sven Slab:
Chain fruit cholla in the foreground; Rock Knob behind them and to the left; Four Peaks in the distance:
Another view from the Rock Knob Trail:
Approaching the park boundary on the Rock Knob Trail:
Back in McDowell Mountain Park now; another view from the Rock Knob Trail:
Hiking down Bluff Wash:
Chuparosa:
Mary says:
Great pictures. Looks like a lot of the vegetation is quite green.
January 14, 2017 — 8:49 pm
Kevin says:
Yes! All that rain that we’ve been getting for over a month now on an almost weekly basis has made the desert quite green.
January 14, 2017 — 10:15 pm
Lyn snider says:
I wish that when I lived there that I had known about hiking and the hiking groups. I always knew it was beautiful, but these pictures are spectacular. Keep it up.
January 15, 2017 — 2:20 pm
Kevin says:
Thanks!
You are welcome to join us on your visits to central AZ!
January 15, 2017 — 3:07 pm