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One of the hilltops between Cottonwood Spring and Cabin Springs is topped with numerous flowering cacti

5195-cactus.jpg On the other side of Butcher Knife Canyon, I find myself on ground too steep (again), and have to climb back down to the streamThumbnailsOther animals before me have carved a bit of a path in the stiff blackbrush on the the plainOn the other side of Butcher Knife Canyon, I find myself on ground too steep (again), and have to climb back down to the streamThumbnailsOther animals before me have carved a bit of a path in the stiff blackbrush on the the plainOn the other side of Butcher Knife Canyon, I find myself on ground too steep (again), and have to climb back down to the streamThumbnailsOther animals before me have carved a bit of a path in the stiff blackbrush on the the plainOn the other side of Butcher Knife Canyon, I find myself on ground too steep (again), and have to climb back down to the streamThumbnailsOther animals before me have carved a bit of a path in the stiff blackbrush on the the plainOn the other side of Butcher Knife Canyon, I find myself on ground too steep (again), and have to climb back down to the streamThumbnailsOther animals before me have carved a bit of a path in the stiff blackbrush on the the plain

Probably Opuntia basilaris (Beavertail cactus).