Today we drove out north of Flagstaff to hike up O'Leary Peak in the Coconino National Forest. This is a 10 mile round trip hike with 2,000 ft of gain to the fire lookout on top. The hike is up the forest road that is closed to all vehicles, except Forest Service fire lookouts.
The first mile is flat. View of O'Leary Peak with a portion of the Bonita Lava Flow
The trail gains 1,000 ft in the next 2.5 miles. Here at 3.5 miles we could see the antennae on the top of the fire lookout above the trees.
View of Sunset Crater
The trail gains another 1,000 ft in the last 1. 5 miles, here we had great views of the San Francisco Peaks.
Happy to see we are getting closer to the top.
Fire lookout on O'Leary Peak is at 8,916 ft.
There was a forest service employee working in the fire lookout, so we were only allowed to go up to the second platform on the lookout.
View from the second platform on the fire lookout, we took a lunch break near those rocks below and enjoyed the views.Wide angle view:
zoom of Sunset Crater
zoom of the San Francisco Peakssome of the wildflowers we saw along the trail today:
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