This is what you get when you don't do your homework up front. The trail lead us (Tom, Michelle, and I) half way around Picketpost Mtn but never appeared to head directly in towards it. In fact, the trail we followed came and went. Next time, we check the route ahead of time. You know it's anti-climatic when the highlight is Tom getting attacked by jumping Cholla.
Michelle and Tom rounding the southwest flank of Picketpost
Multifaceted boulder near my foot
Closeup of the surface
Tom gets jumped by a Cholla
Bad acting alert! Tom in apparent gut-wrenching agony