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Just a few more boulder piles to climb before I'm completely up out of Beecher Canyon

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5208-beecher-canyon.jpg I'm getting close to the top of Beecher Canyon, check my maps, and decide that it's time to turn left (north)ThumbnailsNear the top of the hill above Beecher Canyon I pass by a few junipers growing in limestone-like soilI'm getting close to the top of Beecher Canyon, check my maps, and decide that it's time to turn left (north)ThumbnailsNear the top of the hill above Beecher Canyon I pass by a few junipers growing in limestone-like soilI'm getting close to the top of Beecher Canyon, check my maps, and decide that it's time to turn left (north)ThumbnailsNear the top of the hill above Beecher Canyon I pass by a few junipers growing in limestone-like soilI'm getting close to the top of Beecher Canyon, check my maps, and decide that it's time to turn left (north)ThumbnailsNear the top of the hill above Beecher Canyon I pass by a few junipers growing in limestone-like soilI'm getting close to the top of Beecher Canyon, check my maps, and decide that it's time to turn left (north)ThumbnailsNear the top of the hill above Beecher Canyon I pass by a few junipers growing in limestone-like soil

I stick my hand in a patch of dried phacelias on the way up here. Ouch! They're not thorny, but they have tiny hairs that are as irritating as thorns. Then I stab a finger with three cactus spines. Sloppy hiking!