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An open area on the ridge is dotted with tufts of pink cactus flowers

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6642-castle-peaks.jpg I stop to look at an old, dead yucca trunk laying on the groundThumbnailsWell, since I'm at the base of one of the Castle Peaks outcrops, it's time to decide whether to continue upward or notI stop to look at an old, dead yucca trunk laying on the groundThumbnailsWell, since I'm at the base of one of the Castle Peaks outcrops, it's time to decide whether to continue upward or notI stop to look at an old, dead yucca trunk laying on the groundThumbnailsWell, since I'm at the base of one of the Castle Peaks outcrops, it's time to decide whether to continue upward or notI stop to look at an old, dead yucca trunk laying on the groundThumbnailsWell, since I'm at the base of one of the Castle Peaks outcrops, it's time to decide whether to continue upward or notI stop to look at an old, dead yucca trunk laying on the groundThumbnailsWell, since I'm at the base of one of the Castle Peaks outcrops, it's time to decide whether to continue upward or not

Probably Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basilaris). Clark Mountain presides in the distant background.