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Vineyard Trail Day Hike Roosevelt January 3, 2015 by Bill Zimmermann |
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| Chip, Christina, Gary, Rudy, David, Biljana, Scott, Bill, Nancy, Dan, Sana |
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Beautiful Day! The weather! The views! On a scale to 100 it was a 99+ White-covered mountains lined the road up SR 87 to the trailhead. It was cold and windy at the start. 1200 feet of vertical gain in the first mile and a half warmed up everyone. The wind stopped. Bill pointed out the location of Zimmerman Point across the lake in the Sierra Anchas. Other than a side trip to peak 3559 by Bill and four other hikers, it was on trail. Enough said. The pictures really tell the story. |
 Snow on the Sierra Ancha, beyond Roosevelt Lake. [photo by David] |
 Saguaros on the march, above Peak 3559. |
 Hoorah! We’ve made it to the high country! |
 Century plant salutes the snowcapped Four Peaks. |
 What’s this? Our digitized elevation? |
 Roosevelt Dam and the highway, from high above. |
 Snow, on the Arizona Trail. |
 At least we’ll have some communication. |
 Christina, Biljana, Sana. [photo by Dan] |
 Plenty of brush along the trail. [photo by Dan] |
 We pass through a saguaro forest on the way up. |
 Ever climbing, march we onward. |
 A trail sign, at last! |
 Bill, high above the Apache Trail. |
 Picnic on the top of the world. [photo by David] |
 Four Peaks |
 Saguaros line the Arizona Trail, passage 20. |
 The next passage will take us to the Four Peaks. |
 Looks mighty cold up there. [photo by David] |
 Maybe we should go back down to Roosevelt Lake. [photo by David] |
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