Friday Fitness Hike

Thirteen of us started from the Wagner Trailhead for Friday’s hike, but over the course of the hike, we broke up into three groups.  Janet, Michelle, Nick, and Bob accompanied me through the Bluff Trail Wash to Pemberton and then down Stoneman Wash to Granite at which point we returned on Wagner and Granite.  (We took Wagner and Granite on the way out too.)

Group photo; unfortunately, I could not remember the names of everyone who joined the hike this week.

Troon Mountain is lit up off in the distance.

A view of Four Peaks through vegetation along the trail.

This is where Janet, Michelle, Bob, Nick, and I turned off the Granite Trail.

We wait for a time for Robert to catch up with us.  While we waited I took this photo of the Granite Trail.  The rest of the group that was hiking with us went this way and perhaps those who followed later on did too.

We scramble up these boulders to hike up the wash.  (I’ve posted similar photos in the past, but I processed all of this week’s photos with Adobe Lightroom 5 and wanted to see what it was like to edit this photo using LR5.)

A dead tree in the wash…

Janet and Michelle scramble over boulders on their way up the wash.

A narrow passageway through some rocks:

Flowers…

This rock pile is visible from the Pemberton Trail somewhat north of the Bluff Trail intersection with Pemberton.

I saw this small cholla as we hiked the Pemberton over to Stoneman Wash.

A large saguaro just off of the Pemberton Trail.  Michelle noticed that there were three buds on one of the arms that sort of looked like eyes and a nose.

A rock formation in Stoneman Wash:

Bob, Janet, Nick, and Michelle hiking Stoneman Wash:

Views of Stoneman Wash…