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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: November 2013
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Sunday, November 24, 2013. Going up to that peak is one of those "some day" hikes. Based on what I had seen the last time I was out there, I was sure that the view from the top would be worth the climb. I wonder if it's possible to get on those mountains back there. After the clouds rearranged themselves. Getting back ...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: Bullseye
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Tuesday, September 09, 2014. Screenshot of Google Earth showing the concentric circles. I went by a saguaro with a beehive in it. A droopy saguaro skeleton. Picture taken well after sunset. Look at the dark wall of rainfall behind this saguaro. After a while it looked like it was going to rain where I was and since get...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: December 2013
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Wednesday, December 18, 2013. A different view of Canyon Lake. It still hasn't dried up completely since the last rain. I always take lots of pictures of this mountain when I'm in this area. Here's a saguaro and that mountain. Javelina wondering what all the fuss is about. A nice view before I reached my destination.
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: The 2014 monsoon rains
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Monday, November 24, 2014. The 2014 monsoon rains. Great clouds mean some great sunsets. I was out in the middle of a relatively flat area south of Florence Junction when I took this. You can see dust being kicked up on the left of the photo and a column of rain on the right. There was a great sunset going on at the sa...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: October 2013
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Wandering around near the First Water Creek overlook trail. I parked in the shade and never really got out in the sun. There were nice views of the Canyon Lake and Four Peaks. The air was unusually clear. There is a very narrow slot hiding the waterfall. There was quite a drop from the creekb...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: Dome Mountain
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Monday, March 09, 2015. A view of Dome Mountain. This is a view of Four Peaks from what I consider to be the halfway point. It's as far as I had gotten in 2010. A cairn and a couple of paint stripes are visible in this photo. At the halfway point. The top of Dome Mountain. Bulldog Canyon OHV area. From the Houston/Dall...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: April 2014
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Just a little further up First Water Creek. I went earlier in the day so I had some sunshine. There seemed to be a lot of water despite the dry winter. The creekbed is mostly a narrow canyon. I may not have gotten through here if water was flowing. It doesn't seem to be very deep. What does th...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: March 2015
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Monday, March 09, 2015. A view of Dome Mountain. This is a view of Four Peaks from what I consider to be the halfway point. It's as far as I had gotten in 2010. A cairn and a couple of paint stripes are visible in this photo. At the halfway point. The top of Dome Mountain. Bulldog Canyon OHV area. From the Houston/Dall...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: January 2014
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Wednesday, January 29, 2014. South of Black Cross Butte. There are some interesting rocks along the way. This slowed me down, somewhat. I went out there on the Saturday before MLK day. I had no idea so many festivities were planned for that day along Apache Trail. When I got past most of the traffic, I was stil...It se...
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog: Heat, humidity, bugs, and things
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Art's Desert Exploration Blog. Hiking in the Sonoran desert, with photographs of saguaros, lizards, birds, scorpions, flowers, other desert flora and fauna, mountains, rocks, sunsets, etc. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Heat, humidity, bugs, and things. I've gotten lots of pictures of the sun setting behind Red Mountain. This is where colonizing termites were emerging from a nest. They were all over the top of Lone Mountain. When I went back up there a few days later, the bodies of dozens that never g...I wan...