Keystone Thrust and surrounding hills

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Thursday 5th February 2009
I was feeling REALLY tired (see the eyes in photos/video) so decided to take a short-ish hike to Keystone Thrust. It is where older rock (volcanic grey stuff) got pushed up on top of much younger (red sand stone) rock during a geological 'thrust'...

I got there pretty quickly so decided to climb up the wash to the nearby hills with interesting looking (for me anyway) outcrops of rock. I found an interesting alternative to 'letter boxing' at one of them (see the video link below). Also turns out that volcanic rock is really sharp - cuts your hands up really easy!

After I peaked the second nearby hill I decided to 'cross country' it directly back to the car.

See the video clip here

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Photos

Start
Funny how so many of these routes are defined as 'difficult' - very subjective thing, but says something about the average American's fitness maybe...?

Looking back
at the Bridge Mountain area

Turtle & Thrust
Turtlehead far left and the red patch nearby is the 'Thrust' area

Looking back
at the Thrust area as I climbed up the wash

Hmmmm
wonder why? Maybe a repair job of an old shelter?

Looking back some more
at the Thrust area as I climbed up the wash

Sponge tree...
Not sure what this is called but I like the look of it

Looking back
at the Thrust area as I climbed further up the wash

Interesting rocks
at the edge of another hill I had climbed