Yellow spire full loop

 

The yellow spire loop starts at the silica dome parking lot and goes downhill to the north east. Turned out to be 6 miles and 1000 ft.

Looking towards our goal.

On the way down the hill you pass some colorful rock.

Part way down the trail we dropped into the pretty wash on the right.

We followed it down to the junction withe the wash that leads to the excavator, but turned left to see yellow spire.

Walking through the pretty wash

Small arch near the entrance to yellow spire.

Yellow spire 

Over a small pass is the hoodoo area 

Then we followed a small wash for a short distance before turning off to the left side.

WE then turned left to go into a draw where we could cross over into the next valley. A small hoodoo was at the pass as well as the next photo of possibly petrified wood.

The Squeeze

Looking toward Virgin peak 

Finger rock

This is the pass over to the violet pastel wash

Small arch in the wash...correction, A natural bridge.

Small sand hoodoo

In the pastel wash. Yellow, purple, orange and white dominate

A petrified banana peel

Odd joints in the rock

I got off track and followed a wash to the west that came out in the middle of our previous track. We could retrace our track back to yellow spire from here. At yellow spire, instead of taking the usual old road up to the cars, we stayed in the wash to make it more interesting.

Climbing out of the wash to gain the old road again.