Starting near Red Rock Crossing, this route up the Pyramid, along the ridge to the wash containing the first set of polygonal formations in the area, and then up the wash across Scheurmann Mountain to use the new Scorpion Trail to return as a loop
1 PYRAMIDS AND POLYGONS LOOP
2 First, we climb the Pyramid at the end of the new Scorpion Trail
3 A shagbark juniper
4 The Pyramid
5 Getting views across to Cathedral
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9 Napoleon's Tomb and Bell Rock
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12 High on the Pyramid
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14 Crossing the Fort Apache Layer
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17 Fresh juniper berries
18 Black algae in limestone rain pits is facilitating erosion
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21 Loking back on the road toward the high school
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26 A pit house
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36 What is he collecting?
37 Looking over Oak Creek
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39 The first clouds of an incoming weather system form above the columnar basalt
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50 Polygons ('tesselated pavement') have formed in this wash
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52 So this is where we stop for a break
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55 A scour hole at the base of a fall
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57 Hawks hang over the ridgeline
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63 From here, we start up the wash toward Scheurmann Mountain
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65 Basalt boulders coming down the wash
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69 On top at Scheurmann Mountain, to join another public trail
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73 We emerge back on the Sedona side, closer to the high school
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78 The trail takes us tothe high school and its large solar array...
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80 ...From which we take the Scorpion Trail to return
