Sept 17, 2019; BobF; Don; Joe & Suzanne An old blown out volcano about 25 miles northwest of Flagstaff, along AZ 180
1 Hiking the trail from the parking lot into the blown out section of this million-year-old volcano.
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5 An iPhone panorama photo
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8 If you were frozen here with your dunce hat on for a million years like my buddies and me, your face would looked checked and cracked also.
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10 A composite picture pieced together from multiple photos.
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12 Suzanne, Joe & BobF are off to hike over the top of this old volcano close to the eroded edge you see high up on this blownout side. Following are the set of pictures they took on this trek. Now you see cinders typical of volcanos.
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14 Joe has gotten ahead of BobF and Suzanne and is above them. Of course, he is part mountain goat.
15 Suzanne and BobF are still fascinated with the formations they find along the way.
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17 Joe shoots down into the blownout bowl of the mountain where Don is taking his pictures at the first of this album. The road off AZ 180 that accesses the parking lot for hikers can be seen at the top of this picture.
18 Joe is now a little higher up.
19 All are reunited at the top for a commemorative photo (Photoshopped together from two different photos)
20 Time to head down. Bob takes the lead. What a view: That's Humphreys Peak (el. 12,633 ft) on the left horizon with its top in the clouds. The mountain on the right is Kendrick (el. 10,425 ft) - it looks taller than Humphreys, but that is because it is closer. That small mountain this side of Humphreys is Slate Mountain. These are all part of the San Francisco Peaks and were once part of the same stratovolcano San Francisco Peak that exploded a couple of million years ago (let's just say before this day's hikers moved to AZ).
21 Joe snaps a photo of Bob stopping to look at the blownaway side of the mountain
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23 The Grand Canyon is somewhere out there; it is hiding in a big trench that it made for its self. ;-)
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26 Suzanne takes a final photo of Bob standing near a cinder column. Great day: lots of exercise, good weather and wonderful scenery. A stop in Flagstaff for a late lunch and we head back to the valley where it is still hot.
