Picket Post Mountain where some of our hiking club
have scaled to the top... (I always hiked the circumference, an
8 mile trek), but not today it's 109.
The mountain's unusual name stems from an early
military camp established at the base of the mountain by
General George Stoneman in 1870. The soldiers nicknamed
the mountain “Picket Post” due to its usage as a s
entinel point to guard their camp from attacks.
Picket Post has an elevation of 4378'.
I couldn't resist this shot with the windmill
and when the wind started blowing my iPhone quickly
switched to video mode!!!
As we headed up over Gonzales Pass, towards Superior,
another Pointed Peak came into view. I believe this is part
of the Mineral Mountain area This pointed peak has
an elevation of 3241'.
We traveled up over the summit
and down the other side before we made a u-turn
to head back for home after stopping for a quick ice cream.
Don knew there was a geocache off to the North of the highway
as we headed West.
"Superior-Experience the Beauty" was the name of the cache.
I hate these tiny ones that have a log sheet that takes some
time to roll up and insert back into it's minuscule container,
so I turned around to take a picture of this tall cactus
which was going to seed...
The clouds started to form over all the points, peaks
(and valleys) of the Superstition Mountain Range,
which didn't cool us down one bit... We left that to the A/C.
Our last stop was to revisit the Crested Saguaro at a nearby RV resort.
Scientists once estimated that for every 200,000 normal cacti
there is only one abnormal crest. Originally there were thought to be
less than 200 of these abnormalities in existence. Contrary to this
theory, more than 2050 have been discovered. It is caused by an
unusual mutation which results in the growth of a large fan-shaped crest
at the growing tip of a saguaro’s main stem or arms.
And while driving thru the Arizonian RV Resort we couldn't
believe how many home owners had posted this sign on their home.
Guess they were trying to make a POINT!!!
Our spur of the moment enjoyable outing took about 4 hours
of boredom out of this hot day!!!
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