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This is South Park. That South Park, yes.
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Back road to Black Mountain
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Black Mountain, one of half a dozen Black Mountains in the US.
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The road to Black Mountain, as it is. This is the Black Mountain on the south end of South Park, not the north one.
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When the road got to this I gave up on driving further
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Arid prarie of south South Park
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Abandoned mine shaft
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Mine shaft is extra fall into-y
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The entire area is just stunning
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Very loose scree pile I climbed up
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By luck found a marked tree on one of many breaks
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The source of the scree
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View from the top of Black Mountain
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~3 miles of hike, up 2000 feet, here's the view back to the car, bottom left
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Scree and across the valley
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Didn't see many signs of animals on top, other than a couple birds and this
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Looking north-east from the top
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The very top, 11654 ft, and the guestbook in a PVC tube
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Cliffy
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Peak tree
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Hiked back down, was completely exhausted. Got in the car and immediately got high centered on a small boulder
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Jacked up the car and dug the rock out by hand
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Pretty valley
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Big ranch and a wild animal
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A nice grove of trees south of Black Mountain
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Powerlines through
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Beam of sunset
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Golden hour wildflowers
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Tried to drive out this way, decided not to ford the river
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Black Mountain at sunset from the west
