Peralta Trail

On Saturday, seeing how it's a beautiful 75-80 degrees in the valley right now, my friend Lindsay and I decided to go hiking.  We went up in the Superstition Mountains, just east of Mesa, and hiked the Peralta trail.  Thanks to Linsday's fancy GPS watch, we know we went about 6 miles round trip: up over the saddle and down the next canyon a bit.  It was beautiful and we saw some cool stuff. 

Weaver's Needle

The absolute weirdest cactus I've seen yet.  Kind of looks like a one-legged elephant/3-humped camel with ginormous tusks.

It was steeper than anticipated, and by the end both of us were tired, but it was a good hike.  It's cool to see the difference in landscape between Utah and Arizona.  The rock formations were really neat and fun to climb through.

For my next post: watch for Harry Potter pics this week!