To The Top of Picketpost Mtn Photo Gallery by Bernard Sanden at pbase.com

To The Top of Picketpost Mtn

Finally made it to the top. Some good researching on the Web helped. A few tricky spots, but nothing dangerous. We hit the tail end of the wildflowers, mainly it was the cactus that were beginning to bloom.

9am and a mountain to conquer...or maybe it conquers us	Bug on a pedal	The scene looking back towards trailhead	Prickly pear bloom 1
Desert Mariposa Lily 1	Desert Mariposa Lily 2	Tom determines we still need to go up	One of the trickier parts of the trail
Nearing the top	Beautiful purple flower...beautiful like a BEG I know	Not one of the more convenient postal stops	Hedgehog cactus bloom
View looking east	Southeast view	Northerly view	Horseshoe cross
A potential future hike down below	Globemallow blooms on top of Picketpost Mtn	Surveying the town of Superior	Solitary Mariposa Lily bloom
Tom in one of his familiar "shoe adjustment" poses	More views from the top	A trail register in a tube near where the flagpole once stood	Looking west
What's left of a flagpole	Lavender Thistle blooms	Alien life form unsuccessfully trying not to be noticed	Shoe adjustment 4 or 5, starting to lose count
Weaver's Needle beyond the cliffs 1	Weaver's Needle beyond the cliffs 2	After we found the escalator, the descent was relatively easy	More blooming cactus on the flanks of Picketpost
Prickly pear bloom 2	Bee bop a ree bop	Saxowaxafarfs	Tom is delighted the shoe adjustments are over for the day

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Sam Rua		30-Dec-2009 05:55
Well done, Bernie. I grew up in Superior and always wanted to hike up there. These shots really make me want to do that now more than ever.

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