
Indian Creek Trailhead.

Hiking along Cove Creek Trail #054.

Cove Creek Trail.

Significant effort to turn this from doubletrack into singletrack.

Beautiful fall colors on my way up the Cove Creek Trail.

View back.

I'm headed to the ridgeline seen above.

Ascending out of the valley and up the slope.

Gorgeous view back down into the valley and the taller Tushar Mountains seen poking out.

Little Shelly Peak seen above.

Almost to the ridge crest.

At the ridge crest, view back down. Mount Baldy seen top left.

Along the trail following the ridgeline.

View back. I came up from the slope on the right somewhere.

Little Shelly Peak ahead.

Cool eroded pinnacles.

The trail leads partly up Peak 9862.

View back as I make more progress along the trail.

View back as I make more progress along the trail.

Wider shot higher up just before leaving the trail. I came up the valley seen center.

Off-trail to the summit of Peak 9862.

Pinnacles on the face of Peak 9862.

Little Shelly Peak seen ahead along the ridgeline.

View back down from Peak 9862.

Another view toward Little Shelly Peak, cool hoodoos in the foreground.

Close-up of the hoodoos, Belknap and Baldy in the distance.

View back toward Peak 9862 as I continued along the ridgeline.

Easier hiking farther along, Little Shelly Peak ahead.

View back at the hoodoos.

Approaching the base of Little Shelly Peak.

Light scrambling up Little Shelly Peak.

View back toward Peak 9862.

Nearing the summit.

Little Shelly Peak summit, view toward the taller Tushars, and Manderfield Reservoir below. That's near the trailhead I started from.
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