Bear Mountain Nov 09
From the trailhead on Dry Creek Road at Doe Mountain
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BEAR MOUNTAIN
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The memorial to Steve Naumanson
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The initial, steep climb up to First Bench
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A huge block calved off the wall above
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The trail up the last part of the wall
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On top of First Bench, looking west
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Our snack stop
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Moving around the top of First Bench, we begin to see eastward into Fay Canyon
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We start descending into the Fay Canyon side
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Our lunch target is at the edge of that shadow; Fay Canyon Overlook is to the left
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We descend into a steep drainage
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UNderfoot, slickrock with patches of this sand-gravel mix
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Does this fin look like the Ayatollah Khomeini?
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We seek a shady lunch spot on this wash
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Heding out onto Fy Canyon Overlook, a point above the canyon
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Steve Naumanson fell climbing this crack from the thin ledge below
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The top of Fay Canyon
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A short climb down the north sde of the point, far back, gets us onto a ledge leading forward
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We come to the Bootlegger's Cave
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Original bootlegger artifcts
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Whisky barrels
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Drug paraphernalia, 1925-style
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We continue taking the ledge forward from the cave
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The ledge gets narrower as we go
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...So this is as far as I go.
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We head back on a social trail alomg the steep face on the Fay Canyon side
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This gives us spectacular views into the Canyon
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Parking lot in view!
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CAn you see where we came?
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A smalll cave on the wall below First Bench
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