Twin Buttes Battlement Mesa Dec 09
A mesa behind the Broken Arrow-Chicken Point trail near the Broken Arrow side
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TWIN BUTTES/BATTLEMENT MESA
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Starting from the Broken Arrow trailhead
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Battlement Mesa is our first goal. This is the north side...
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...While our plan is to climb from the east. This takes us along the public trail first.
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The side trail up Battlement starts at this pile of huge rocks
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It gets snowier as we climb
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It also gets steeper
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The best route is up a wash filled with fallen boulders
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Lookiong east over Submarine Rock
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A half-dead shagbark juniper is all that holds this boulder up
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On top of Battlement
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Hikers on the public trail far below
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Frozen water seeps on the side of the mesa
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Houses to our north
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Small scour ponds have formed along this crack
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...Which leads to one of the now-frozen water seeps
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Standing on top of Battlement
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The Sedona Cemetery
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Looking across Uptown
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Home of our former Trail Boss
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Ledge walking from Battlement Mesa up to the Twin Buttes
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A luxuriant patch of moss
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One last climb up the Buttes
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We can now see down the front side to the Chapel
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Looking back at Battlement Mesa
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We now head across to Chicken Point
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Chicken Point, favority of tour groups
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On the way back by jeep road, we visit Submarine Rock
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