Our goal for the day
Rainbow Peak, Rainbow Wall, Magic Mountain, and Juniper Peak
Starting out
Making our way to the canyon
Bridge Point
Still on the trail
Pine tree on the way into Pine Creek Canyon
Still on the trail, approaching Mescalito
I'm so happy to be hiking!
Mescalito
The guys, Parnell, Mike, and Rick
The happy hikers
Climbing wall on Mescalito. Notice the tiny speck in the dark spot of the middle...
...it's a climber
Looking back to Pine Creek trail
Parnell camouflaged by the trees
More pretty trees
Another view of the climbing wall
Creek in Fern Canyon
Cute little frog
Our path through Fern Canyon
Fallen tree by pool of water
Path through Fern Canyon
Rick standing on the dead tree
Rick again, too much backlighting
Finally, we arrive at some fun boulders
Mike, starting to get into the scrambling
Here I am scrambling up some boulders
Parnell, climbing up a wall
Parnell, up the wall
Look at me up here!
Looking back through Pine Creek Canyon
Looking ahead through the canyon. Our goal is to get to the end of the canyon, beneath the vertical wall, and to go up and to the right.
More of our route ahead
Out of the wash, now we are walking along this tilted rock
Rick sticking to the wash
Parnell and Mike relaxing
Rick, taking the difficult route over a steep wall
Looking back through Pine Creek, with Rick still going up his wall
More of Rick and the wall
More of Pine Creek Canyon and Rick now standing on the wall
Pine Creek Canyon
Parnell scrambling up
Rick scrambling up
The fork ahead. Our path is to the right.
The fork to the left. You can see where there are falls here in the spring.
Me, with Pine Creek Canyon in the background
Mike, with Pine Creek Canyon in the background
Mike, making friends wih some Prickly Pear cactus
Hmm, not sure where to go next!
How do we get up there?
Still pondering a path...
Mike resting on a rock
Mike perched on his rock
Mike's attempt to find us a path
Mike scaling a wall
Me, killing some time while the guys search for a path
Looking back, again through Pine Creek Canyon
We've giving up on finding a path, so we start back
Climbing down
More climbing down
Back to the tilted rock
Parnell, thinking deep thoughts about the canyon below
Parnell, still in deep thought
Parnell, no longer thinking
Mike, no doubt waiting for me to put down the darn camera and catch up
Mike, perched on another rock
Group shot of the guys
Close up of the guys, each on their own rock
The dead tree again
The dead tree was a very tall one
Over a pool of water looking back towards the Pine Creek trail
Boulders in the canyon
Yes, there are ferns in Fern Canyon
Mike, thinking about going for a swim
Beautiful canyon pool
The climbing wall again. See the crack in the middle...
...there are tiny little people in it
One final scramble down
Off we go to the car
