  1 NAPOLEON'S TOMB
And circumnavigation of Cathedral Rock |
 2 Our starting point is the Baldwin trailhead on Verde Valley School Road, almos at Oak Creek |
 3 We climb first, because we anticipate a hot day. |
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 10 The Village comes into view as we climb |
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 15 This is our best view of the Tomb. The hard limestone slab protecting it is a remnant of the Fort Apache Layer. |
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 19 Napoleon's Tomb is a large hoodoo, named by French students at Verde Valley School, because of its resemblance to the monument in Paris |
 20 Indian paintbrush |
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 24 Tesselated pavement, jike like the rocks at Polygons |
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 26 Down a series of narrow slots to the lower level |
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 28 Cathedral Rock comes into view |
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 32 Prickly pear is startiung to bloom, though most of it blooms in June. |
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 35 Our last and best view of the Tomb |
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 37 Now we are on the Back O' Beyons side of Cathedral |
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 39 SOmwe more climbing, through narrow slots |
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 42 A morning break. It's already getting hot. |
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 51 Hedgehog cactus |
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 54 One small glimpse of Rabbit Ears |
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 61 Daisies everywhere now |
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 63 The cliff just right of center in the distance is the place on Munds Mountain where we were two weeks ago |
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 66 Mountain lupine |
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 68 Segolily, the state flower of Utah |
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 73 Yellow lichen |
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 78 More prickly pear |
 79 Pink penstemon, as we make our way down the bluff to Oak Creek |
 80 Oak Creek transforms the landscape |
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 83 Our lunch spot on the creek |
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 85 A large spider on the creek bank |
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 92 Downstream toward our starting point |
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 95 The Baldwin Trail intersectino, where we began |
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