Red Mountain reflects in the Salt River in the Tonto National Forest on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation outside Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately there were no Salt River horses at the river on this visit. Formally know as Mount McDowell, Red Mountain gets its name by the brilliant red color of the oxidize iron-sulfide of which the mountain is comprised. 
Mount McDowell is named General Irvin McDowell of the Union Army, the commanding officer of the Department of the West. The Salt River, a fresh water river, gets it's name for the salt deposits the water flows over after merging with the White and Black Rivers.
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"It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hillary
Half Dome - Yosemite National Park
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I have been on many whale watching tours and never saw a full breach .......until sitting on the beach in Ka'anapali Maui, Hawaii. Luckily I had my telephoto lens and was able to capture the whale from start to finish on it's breach.
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The snow capped San Francisco Peaks rise up above the Granite Dells and Willow Lake as the sun sets behind me in beautiful Prescott, Arizona USA.
Located just north of Flagstaff, Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks are 90 miles north of Prescott. The San Francisco Peaks consist of 3 main peaks. The tallest is Humphreys Peak which rises 12,633 feet, while the shortest is Fremont Peak at 11,969 feet. Agassiz Peak is 12, 356 feet. Three additional peaks, Doyle (11,464 feet); Rees (11,474 feet) and Schultz (10,083) make up the remainder of what is known as the San Francisco Peaks. Humphreys Peak is the highest point in Arizona

For information on how the San Francisco Peaks were named visit the following Forest Service page
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coconino/learning/history-culture/?cid=fseprd1107872
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Munds Mountain provides the backdrop for this shot of Little Horse Trail which is a hike in the easy to moderate range. It offers views of Chapel of the Holy Cross, Cathedral Rock, Court House Butte, Two Nuns Spires, the Madonna and Munds Mountain and Lee Mountain.
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