Elden Lookout Trail #4 Photoset • cindyl • 2013-09-07 • HikeArizona.COM

Elden Lookout Trail #4, AZ

	2013-09-07
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Elden Lookout Trail #4

Flagstaff, AZ

Elden Lookout Trail #4

Flagstaff, AZ

Hiking	5.40 Miles	2,422 AEG

Hiking	5.40 Miles
	2,422 ft AEG

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southpawaz

"sweetie pie?"
"yes?"
"would you mind too terribly if we didn't camp tonight?"

well, no. it wasn't a big inconvenience not to set up in the rain. this wasn't our ultimate destination for this weekend, but i didn't mind. elden had been mocking me for quite some time so i was more than happy to have it gone from the list. every time i had driven by elden in the past four years or so, it had been mocking me - teasing me with its tower. now it was over.

the part i am still wondering about is the part where it seems like at one point people were unsure how to spell it. in my tower book, it spells this one "eldon." everywhere else it is elden, as the name of the homesteaders themselves spelled it. so why the confusion? all of the reference marks and benchmarks seem to have both spellings listed.

:-k

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Common Sunflower Cosmos Pleated Gentian Rocky Mountain Beeplant

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Benchmark Fire Lookout Structures Reference Mark

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Elden Fire Lookout Elden Mountain Lookout Tower San Francisco Peaks Natural Area

Wildflowers Observation Light

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There are just two switchbacks left. And another half-mile to the destination...

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