Another Difficult Hike

Looking east toward Tortugas and the Organs

Difficult in the sense that we three were out there again on a hike without Frio, the member of the former quartet who loved being in the desert the most.

We did our regular trek until we got up into the left branch arroyo, and then we bushwhacked eastward to the saddle and onto the hill.  We descended the hill westward, rejoined the left branch arroyo trail and finished the rest of our usual route.

Down the LDR-A arroyo

Willow and Dr. K

Willow and me

Spent Soaptree Yucca seed pod

Organs from the base of the hill

This & next:  lone Soaptree at the top of the hill

Willow surveying her territory

This & next:  typical desert scene

My shadow, Willow and Dr. K

Last 3:  same Claret Cup I photographed yesterday