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I climb past a few junipers on the way up the drainage area to Pinto Mountain

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4184-pinto-mountain.jpg Bright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto MountainThumbnailsSteep uphills are always satisfying when one turns around to see how much one has risen in such a short timeBright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto MountainThumbnailsSteep uphills are always satisfying when one turns around to see how much one has risen in such a short timeBright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto MountainThumbnailsSteep uphills are always satisfying when one turns around to see how much one has risen in such a short timeBright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto MountainThumbnailsSteep uphills are always satisfying when one turns around to see how much one has risen in such a short timeBright red hummingbird flowers growing in the gravelly drainage west of Pinto MountainThumbnailsSteep uphills are always satisfying when one turns around to see how much one has risen in such a short time

I'm not seeing any human footprints here, so I guess this isn't a frequently traveled route. Traction isn't the firmest, but it's not dangerously slippery like some slopes.