Just a few miles outside of Wickenburg is a group of rises called the Vulture Mountains. We chose to hike up Vulture Peak this morning before settling down to doing laundry and other chores. The hike was about 4 miles round trip. From the trailhead to the bottom of the mountain was about 1.3 miles thru desert. One spot had so many cholla cacti that it looked like a forest and there were many cocotilla, saguaro, barrel and fish hook cacti. Once we reached the base we climbed .7 miles up 700 feet of elevation to a saddle between Vulture Peak and its shoulder called Sawtooth. We could have climbed another 240 feet but it would have been literally climbing, hand-over-foot and we chose NOT to do that.
We lunched at the Hog Trough where we had some really awesome BBQ and homemade cole slaw. Yummy!
The afternoon was spent doing laundry, working on the computer, napping and supper (not necessarily in that order.)
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