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Above the piles of tailings at the Butcher Knife Mine

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00066-butcher-knife-mine-800px.jpg On the way up to the mine tailings, I cross a drainage with profuse desert-mallow bloomsThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundOn the way up to the mine tailings, I cross a drainage with profuse desert-mallow bloomsThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundOn the way up to the mine tailings, I cross a drainage with profuse desert-mallow bloomsThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundOn the way up to the mine tailings, I cross a drainage with profuse desert-mallow bloomsThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the groundOn the way up to the mine tailings, I cross a drainage with profuse desert-mallow bloomsThumbnailsJust above the lower mine at Butcher Knife Canyon is another big hole in the ground

So many orange desert-mallow flowers up here... The sandy area to the right that looks like road (and which is, sort of, a road) is the wash into which Butcher Knife Canyon drains, my route today.