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041 The sandy parking lot at the end of Painted Canyon Road - that's Painted Canyon, center
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042 There is another wash to the left of the parking lot - we decided to start a big loop by hiking up that canyon first
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049 Technically this canyon is closed to vehicles (part of the Wilderness) but the big stones in the parking lot got moved
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057 Eventually the canyon narrowed and vehicles couldn't travel, so we hiked in peace - most of those trees are Catclaw!
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065 Close-up of a catclaw branch - those thorns really grab onto everything, and don't let go easily - just like a cat's
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078 The easy canyon to the west of Rope Canyon also gets fairly narrow and deep, but isn't a true slot canyon
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118 We found a stone cairn which directed us up a steep use trail to the main, central ridge trail
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130 Panorama view into the afternoon sun from the lookout spot on the ridge trail above Painted Canyon
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152 Painted Canyon is down below us, and a steep use trail leads down there from the ridge trail
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157 There is a large arrow made of river rocks to let up-canyon hikers know where to climb up to the ridge
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168 Some of the lower stone (bedrock) in Painted Canyon is quite hard, while other parts are loose sandstone
