Jeffery's Hike with Roger

Jeffery and Roger hiked up the Chambers Creek Trail.

cairn at the first camping site, about half-way between the lower bridge over the creek and the top.  (to get to the bridge is nearly a two mile climb, just so you know.  It's a hike I take and I don't usually get much farther up the trail than a half mile beyond the bridge)

morning mist in the lowlands after the rain from about half way up the trail

Jeffery selfie

view of the "faux" peak which Jeffery at that point still thought was the real peak

Upper Chambers Creek, which they cross back over to head back to Tobin.  They've hiked into a forest at this point

Roger

see the bear scratchings?  the human scratchings are pretty old, and grown over with different bark

getting higher, near Chambers Peak, which is 6093 ft. tall

the faux peak.  the guys will turn right here to climb the true peak

cool rocks

more cool rocky outcroppings

love this view of the same thing I've been showing you, only from near the highest place on the trail, with the faux peak in the center.   We figure that the bowl of fog is in the Twain area and beyond.  What say you, map-master Sara?  Think it's Twain?

The peak is to the right, still a ways to go.  In this photo, you can see the switch-back road that we take up and over the Tobin Ridge (admit it's pretty faint).  You can see the Tobin Ridge is really a long ridge-line from this view.

more cool rock.  no, it's not wood, it's rock.

the cairn at the top of  Chambers Peak.

what we call the back-side, looking away from the canyon to the north-west

test of your eye-sight.  in this photo there is a plane, big enough to be considered a cargo plane, way down below where the fellows are.  It's a little white bird-dot directly above the big rock, about a third of the way down from the top of the photo.

Jeffery added to the cairn at the peak

more cool rocks

Jeffery went over the far-side and looked back up at the Peak from a different angle.  When they departed the hill they headed to the left of the photo.  I like how this view shows the canyon side and the back-side

Jeffery and Roger at the top of Chambers Peak

at the top of Jackass Creek, before it falls into the canyon in a long, steep drop-off.

map of the area.  they began their journey to the right of, and wended up the trail in, the black label; crossed Chambers Creek at the top-left of said label and picked up the trail from there down and back  to Tobin

looking  back along the Tobin Ridge towards where they've been, along a stretch I've never seen, with Chambers Peak

super cool alluvial sand flow

I want to go up there!  However, I think it best that we take my OTV (aka Bigfoot) up there so I don't have to walk 15 miles up steep inclines and through buck-brush and manzanita bushes.  What a fabulous place up there, and in my own big back yard.  Maybe this is where we should go next Solstice!