Steamboat Rock Nov 09
This huge bare-rock mountain rises directly behind uptown Sedona
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STEAMBOAT ROCK
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We start from the Midgley Bridge trailhead, toward Wilson Canyon
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Arizona cypresses
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Our break stop is the speactular bowl at the top of Wilson Canyon
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Pointing out the formations
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The south face of Wilson Mountain
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At the fork, we take the Jim Thompson Trail
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Three-fouths of a mile in on the Jim Thompson, we leave the public trail to start steeply up Steamboat Rock
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The treeline ends at slickrock on this cold, windy day.
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We climb a series of benches and ledges
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Those spires in the background are our objective today
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Tephra
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We are sitting on the Fort Apache limestone layer
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This wall towers above us
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A view of Uptown Sedona
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On the way down, some of us are getting cold in the high wind
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The steepest part of the slickrock is still walkable with good boots
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Back in the treeline
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