Day 24 - Templeton Trail

The Team on the run-in to Templeton Trail from the bottom of Verde Valley School Road.

Massive clusters of deadfall - but yielding interesting patterns and textures.

A canyon section near the Oak Creek reparian zone.

Peak colour season is now past - but the silvery branches make a show unto themselves.

The riparian zone of Oak Creek is a mad tangle.

Here some remaining vibrant colour plays against stark white bark.

The red rocks peek through the jungle.

We break out of jungle into grasslands.

We picked up a cheap bottle of anti-FLIR spray at the Hike House in town. It really works! The Black Helicopters flew right overhead and couldn't see us.

Not my hole - nope didn't do that! And no that's not red dust on my chops or feet.

The Vortex at Cathedral extends down Templeton, marvelously bending the landscape.

The Vortex also affects tree bark.

The Vortex has also created a super-race of beetles who have independently invented a wooden printed circuit board, mostly to support their latest quantum computer design, which they hope to use to find an answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. It is not clear why the super-race of beetles care about this.

Dead grass in motion - a vortex is nearby.

Young trees tremble with the vortex presence.

Russ ascends the last canyon section for the day.

Vortexes are calm at sunset.

 

 

 

 

 

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