Mark's Scenic Arizona

Trail 214 is up that way

Trail 196 is just across the road

Looked like a tangle of snakes

Almost a surreal landscape of ash

Looks like the Manzanita will survive

A slingshot on the hill?

Zoomed in

View SE from first high point

Our destination, East Mountain

More results of the lightning caused fire

Another view of East Mountain

View out toward the San Carlos Apache Reservation

View SE from higher ground

More of San Carlos

View ENE

ENE zoomed in

Although colors are subdued, beauty was still evident

Rock pile surrounded by ash

Closeup of sling shot tree

Black shadows for trees

Elephant-sized rock out there

Rocks split by heat of fire

Broiled Manzanita

Tangled forms of Manzanita

Looked like plywood cactus from a distance

Extra roasted Manzanita

Fire just burned off the outer green layer

Another angle

More broiled Manzanita

Photo taken in shade

Same photo in direct sun

East Mountain

More Manzanita

And more

Denuded but quite alive Manzanita

Only subdued colors here

Another batch of snakes?

Wow, some green for a change!

Manzanita very much alive

Puffy clouds over Pinal Peak

Photo simply couldn

Family of little prickly guys

Century plant ready to bloom

Very representative of the trail

Pine in front of Pinal Peak

Trunk appeared to have been flattened

Manzanita rising from the ashes?

Some hot spots

Winding through the enchanted forest

Split rock in center

Fire must have followed sap up the tree

Charred pine skeleton

Another split rock

Rock doesn

But it does from here

Another unknown butterfly

Alien tree giving painful birth?

Medusa tree?

More charred Manzanita

Brilliant color among the ahses

This frog blends in well

Turned around for a portrait

No luck naming this butterly either

Caught in mid-flap

We were in Bear Country!

White ash where heat was highest

Blackfeet! The ash sure did a number on them