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A Trip to the Sikort Chuapo Mountains

Today I joined up with a group of botanists for a visit to the Sikort Chuapo Mountains. This area is east of Ajo, past the Burro Gap. There are few roads and much of the area is raw wilderness. We drove in on one of the few roads that access that area. Paul and Linda had camped there a few days ago, finding the area loaded with wildflowers. I took a lot of photos, some of the scenery and some of various flowers that I still haven’t identified. Those will have to be posted later, but for now, here is some scenery.

Spires of volcanic rock. Elevations on the tops of the mountains in this area are around 3000 ft.
A typical scene, lots of Mexican Poppies, Owl Clover and lupines with Desert Chicory (the white flowers).
Poppies on a hillside, lupines lower.
More Lupines and Owl Clover and a forest of Chain Cholla in the background. The cholla forest was very impressive, some of the plants are 8 feet high.
This large rock has no name on the map, but the locals call it Noah’s Ark. From Ajo, it does look somewhat like an ark but not from this angle.
Looking west from a ridge. Look at all those patches of poppies out there! One could walk for miles. Right click on the image and one can see patches of blue too, lupines.
One of the flowers I’ve identified, I’ve seen this one many times. Twining Snapdragon. Maurandella antirrhiniflora.

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