Cathedral Peak 808m in Lake Mead Area, Nevada

A 9-mile loop hike which starts off the Boathouse Cove Road. To view this slideshow click on the first thumbnail and enjoy. To see our hike to Cathedral Peaks 859m and 869m click here

March 7, 2008


00Goal for today in yellow

01Road to unofficial trailhead

02Look back at parking spot

03Notch-Leaved Phacelia

04Phacelia up close

05Desert Chicory

06Desert Chicory

07Checker Fiddlenecks

08Checker Fiddlenecks

09Look back

10Up the hill

11Two Cathedral Peaks come to view

12Cathedral 859m

13Cathedral 869m

14The approach continues

15More Phacelia blossoms

16Phacelia

17Mojave Gold Poppies

18By wildflowers

19Cathedrals in the back

20Small field of Yellow Cups

21Yellow Cups

22More Yellow Cups

23White Woolly Daisies

24Mojave Gold Poppy

25With a Visitor inside

26Purple Mat

27Purple Mat

28The approach

29Route to Cathedral Wash

30Cathedral 859m

31Cathedral 869m

32The approach

33Checker Fiddlenecks

34Looking back

35Looking ahead

36Looking up

37Looking up

38In the wash

39In the wash

40Little Gold Poppies

41Little Gold Poppy

42In the wash

43

44The approach

45The approach

46We spot an arch

47Arch

48In the wash

49The approach continues

50Peak is beginning to come to view

51Looking back and zooming in on arch

52Finally goal for today is in view

53Cathedral Peak 808m

54View of route to saddle

55To the saddle

56Yellow Cups

57Yellow Cups

58Very Very Yellow

59We continue up

60Popcorn-Flower

61Side-blotched Lizard

62Looking at the peak

63Below Cathedral Peak

64We are being watched

65Bighorn Sheep

66It is an Ewe

67Surprised Ewe

68Ewe

69Ewe

70Little Gold Poppies

71Looking back

72Looking ahead

73To the saddle

74Looking back

75Mojave Sage

76Not in full bloom yet

77Looking back

78Scented Forget-Me-Not

79Forget-Me-Not on route to saddle