Pit View Peak & Horse Pasture Hill
December 15, 2022

Hiking up the road into the Sierrita Mountains, some snow from a storm 2 days ago still lingers

The last bit of slope up to Peak 5816 "Pit View Peak"

Same peak, down the south side now

Horse Pasture Hill

Same peak, now at its base

I'm about a third of the way up Horse Pasture Hill

Summit of Horse Pasture. Mount Wrightson looms in back, some of the Sierrita Mine can be seen too

The Sierrita Crest, with Keystone Peak and the towers. I followed a track that comes down the left ridge in this image

The Sierrita Mine. In back are the Santa Catalinas and Rincon Mountains

Baboquivari Peak

Hiking down, a little snow

My car at the McGee Settlement Water Tank. The only way in is to squeeze through a 2-foot by 5-foot opening seen here. Thus, chubby hikers may have trouble getting in

Mount Wrightson. This photo is not retouched in any manner. There was a cool inversion layer thing happening that provided this interesting "stripe" effect

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