Lazarow World-Hike-About

The Colorado joins us and forms Lake Havasu on its way to Parker Dam. It took many years to realize that we immerse ourselves not just in the inviting water and mountains, but rather, the magnificent surround. It's a simple choice. Nature gives, we take. Nature is not judgmental, in fact, it cares not. A person grabs, seizes or ideally, absorbs whatever she requires from nature without a need to reciprocate. It's one of the few or only situations in our world that a person may satisfy her desires without commitment to offer compensation. (Obviously, do no harm is implied)... continues below ...  Notice the gap/window in the roundish rock at the peak. Also, Jen is returning from the peak as we head down to the beginning with a couple miles to go. The rock is resting on two pillars of the peak. On a previous hike to this location, note the balancing/resting rock behind. On the other side of the balancing/resting rock, the peak wall below is vertical. Note the two gaps be...

A close-up of Turtlehead with a chance of rain in the desert. A view from Turtlehead, just above the saddle. Jenni testing the water in the early stages...perhaps that should be testing the boulders. Striding out...it's an incredible feeling being in such an environment. Climbing up. Sometimes, it's difficult to grasp the extent of the boulder/rock covering. Some scaling going on in the background. 'Is that Las Vegas again?' "I'm afraid it is." Hard to get away from the 'Strip'. Sitting in a wonderful position at height, we admire the positioning of the lone tree and wonder what the engineer who designed the road below was drinking...um...thinking. Confronted with 'a leap of faith' or a wise retreat. 'I wonder whether those rocks below are softer than they look.' We pose the question as we noticed that many of the rock climbers carry mattresses with them to place below their climbing route. When w...

Chimney Rock protrudes at rear (above middle of picture). The foreground, well quite a sight. Cross a channel, climb for a while and another beautiful Sedona sights confronts the viewer. One of us stands across the way with additional views available to the right. Jen stands on an edge, a little backdrop at rear. Let's take another look but switch the focus. From a great vantage point, it appears the deer does not know we are about...Jen thought he might smell Jeffrey. Even from distance, it looks like he's confused as he peers down. Reaching this point is a highlight of the hike although the position is not part of a trail. Jen waves from one edge to another. Very friendly guy. He returns the wave. Jen crosses the rocks. In the distance at height is the butte to which we are heading as shown in photo above. As we return from higher up, we sink down onto submarine rock and enjoyed some climbing thereon.   One of the big guys, 'Thunder Mountain...