1. Parking lot at the end of Camino del Cerro

2. The sign at the Trailhead

3. Sweetwater Trail sign

4. Arizona Jewel Flower

5. Coulters Lupine

6. The hike begins.

7. FairyDuster and a couple of poppies

8. Steps along the way - near an old jeep or mine trail

9. A Bird's nest in a Saguaro

10. A Crested Saguaro

11. Avra Valley View

12. Lunch and Pictures

13. Flowers along the way

13-flowers

14. Carpet of Poppies

15. The sign at saddle

16. Crested saguaro

17. Fairy Duster

18. The Sendero Esperanza Trail

19. Outhouse ruins at Mam-a-Gah Picnic grounds

20. petroglyphs

21. Picturesque petroglyphs

22. petroglyphs under an overhang

23. petroglyphs

24. metates

25. Mam-a-gah picnic area

26. King Canyon Trailhead Sign

27. At the Desert Museum

28. The Harris's Hawk

29. Harris' Hawk closeup

 

Mt. Wasson Adventure Timeline

1. Our Presidents’ Day trip begins at the west end of Camino del Cerro and the beginning of the Sweetwater trail.

2. Cousins Kathy and Judy and husband Ray join me. Horses allowed, no dogs.
3. Our goal is to hike to the saddle where the Sweetwater trail meets the King Canyon trail, then hike down the westside where the parking lot is just a stone’s throw away from the Desert Museum.
4. Off on our hike we run across a few wildflowers, and are excited about that. Lupine, poppies, desert chicory scatter the area. Anyone name this one? Arizona Jewel Flower maybe?