
Follow a wash from the trailhead toward Balkan Dome.

Balkan Dome right, Pictograph Mountain left.

Scramble up Balkan Dome.

Looking down into the wash I came up on while heading up Balkan Dome.


False high point on Balkan Dome, Pictograph Mountain over the on the left.



Balkan Dome high point.

Looking back from Balkan Dome summit.

Route-finding down from Balkan Dome's north side.


Head through open desert toward Pictograph Mountain.

Looking back toward Balkan Dome.

Red Wash Trail goes to the north of Pictograph Mountain.

Red Wash Trail.

The ridge on the left heads up Pictograph Mountain.

Heading up the ridge, looking back the way I came.


Crazy terraces along the ridge heading up to Pictograph Mountain.


A gorgeously colored high point, not the summit. I want to go there, regardless. You can also see the forming of a natural arch in the center.

Looking back down the ridge (hidden behind the white dome on the left), the colorful high point just right of center.

Looking back down the ridge, colorful terraces the whole way up.

Approaching the Pictograph Mountain summit.

Looking back along the ridge from just below the summit of Pictograph Mountain.

Pictograph Mountain summit ahead, looking north.

Pictograph Mountain summit looking south.

Pictograph Mountain summit, looking north toward the colorful high point that I wanted to head to next.

Ridiculously cool veins of orange and white rock.

Saddle between Picrograph Mountain and the pretty high point.

Pretty colorful high point looking back toward Pictograph Mountain. The left side seems higher, but the true summit is on the right.
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