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Saturday, February 25, 2012

West of Tortugas

At the head of the Crosscut Trail
Owing to the strenuousness of our hike yesterday, and the fact that my old knees cannot handle the stress they used to take, we did a shorter hike west of Tortugas (Tortoise) Mountain this morning.  She didn't have to say anything, but I know Becca was protesting the shorter trek vociferously.  We had a good time nonetheless.  The last image is a Google earth screen shot that clearly shows one of the large arroyos we hiked through.
In an arroyo west of the mountain


Heading back

Claret Cup Cactus beginning to bud

Becca and the mountain
Section of our track superimposed over a Google earth screen capture

1 comment:

Dr. K said...

I really like the google maps.

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