Black Mountain Ridge - November 9, 2024

scatman

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Sheila and I had a nice day hike to the top of Black Mountain Ridge yesterday. It was nice to get up above the haze in the valley for a bit.

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Getting ready at the trailhead. Somebody's shadow got in the way. :)

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Only remaining flower that I saw - maybe some goldenaster

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I'd done the Avenues Twin Peaks the day before, so I was covering the same ground at the beginning - the south twin above

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Hard to see, but there are a rafter of turkeys on the hillside heading towards the scrub oak

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Past their prime fall colors

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The South Avenues Twin. We are curving around on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail

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A few leaves still with some vivid color to them

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And one fallen with frost around its edges

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The trail to the top of the ridge

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There is your snow @Bob, maybe a 1/4 inch. :) North Avenues Twin above.

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Sheila, making her way to the top of the ridge

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Black Mountain ahead. All we have to do is follow the ridge which has a bit of up and down to it.

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City Creek Canyon below

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One tree with some color left

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Looking back on the Avenues Twin Peaks and the hazy Salt Lake Valley

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Just working our way along the ridge

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Only my second ever Jerusalem cricket encounter

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Grandview Peak

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Mountain mahogany

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Snow covered Francis Peak in the distance

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Snowy trail up the first part of Black Mountain

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Sheila, working her way uphill. We had a coyote serenading us all the way to the top of the ridge. It was yipping somewhere down
in City Creek Canyon.

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View over the top of Rudy's Flat towards Francis Peak

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Search and Rescue? Hopefully, they will give me a lift to the top. :)

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Back to some snow

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View down City Creek Canyon

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That much further to the top

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Benchmark where we stopped to eat lunch

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A look to the east along the ridge

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Antelope Island through the haze, where I hope to be tomorrow.

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The workhorses for this hike: an old 2003 Canon Digital Rebel, and a Canon PowerShot G7 which was acting up. I may have
bought a lemon. :(

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Ridge shot

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A BCP welcome. Wrist update - I have been put in another custom made brace for at least five more weeks. I will be getting a
steroid shot into the TFCC in two weeks to see if it will help calm down the pain when I twist my wrist. We shall see.

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On our way back down

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The Dude Benchmark

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Stopping to take off our micro-spikes

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One of the ups on our way back along the ridge

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View down Dry Canyon. That far hill on the right looks like a good slope for one of @Bob 's horse trails. :D

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Looks like one short dog over there.

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A Corgi?

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Making our way down along the west side of the Twins

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Back at the Sube. The hike took us about 5.5 hours roundtrip.


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New term for me. Always called them a covey or just flock.
Such a great area for day hikes. Good luck with that wrist.

It is a great place for day hikes. The foothill ones get you some exercise and then also allow you to get some other things done with the rest of your day.
 
More time, a brace and injection. Some PT too? or not yet?

Is that the lightweight kilt for the still too warm fall weather?
It was very nice this weekend. Some more snow on the way hopefully.
The golden fields and foothills look great. Nice shots.
 
More time, a brace and injection. Some PT too? or not yet?

Is that the lightweight kilt for the still too warm fall weather?
It was very nice this weekend. Some more snow on the way hopefully.
The golden fields and foothills look great. Nice shots.

I just finished six weeks of PT early last week. It didn't do anything for my wrist, so they have braced me back up with a slightly different kind of brace. :( I'm assuming there might be more PT starting the first week of December when I can take the brace off? I've got a list of tough questions that I'll be asking the doctor when I go in for my injection two weeks from today.

No, it is actually one of my colder weather kilts that I wore. The car said that it was 37 degrees at the trailhead, but by the time we got to the top the thermometer on my day pack said 46, and the car said 53 when we got back to it.

Yeah, I just love the golden grasses this time of year.
 
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