It’s Sunday, our second full day in Hurricane, and we set out to explore the Candy Cliffs area of Yant Flat. For directions to the trailhead, I had previously downloaded an online write-up. They proved to be reasonably accurate.
From the trailhead, we hiked up an old Jeep road now closed to motorized traffic. Along the way, we passed numerous prickly pear cacti in bloom…
…yucca getting ready to bloom…
…and some claret cup hedgehog cacti beginning to display a spiny bouquet of intense scarlet blossoms.
We only hiked as far as the Yant Flats overlook.
We could have descended down into this colorful country, but one member of our party elected not to do it.
Getting old is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Instead of venturing downward, we headed back to the truck through this beautiful but sandy country.