Black Mountains/Cathedral Peaks in Lake Mead NRA

[goofball]

been a very wet year so far here in vegas and it has made for a lot of very nice lighting for hikes. as well as a very green mojave. saw a couple of good sized rams on this hike w/ big horns. neat.


the wash i used to get in n out of the broken land between cleopatra wash and the cathedral peaks

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one of teh trickling washes i hopped to n from

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cathedral peaks from pt. 808

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and one of a ram

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and one of a sunlit bitter ridge while the western muddys hide in clouds

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[Udink]

Beautiful! I just looked at the other photos of that area you have on Summitpost. It looks like a great time to be hiking out there. :2thumbs:

[goofball]

Beautiful! I just looked at the other photos of that area you have on Summitpost. It looks like a great time to be hiking out there. :2thumbs:

thanks. & you've got a lot of nice photos at your picasa page. really liked the close up of the sand dune in the swell.

it is a great time to be hiking here. the dogwood (i think ?) trees were in full bloom a couple weeks ago or more and are now just green & we've had the heater off most of the time for about 2 weeks now. but there is a lot of snow in the higher mountains from all teh moisture that has moved thru.