Climb, Climb Up Silly Mountain

I’ve climbed Silly Mountain with three different companions since our arrival here in Gold Canyon Arizona. 

My husband Dave
My friend Esther
And my sister Kaaren

Silly Mountain seems like an odd name for a mountain but when I tried to find out how it got that designation all I could discover was that a road grader named Harry Cadwalader had a home on the road leading up to Silly Mountain and told his supervisor he’d like to name the road Silly Mountain Road and the supervisor agreed. 

A little more creative thought went into naming the trails. There are lots of different ones to climb. Some are easy, some moderate and some difficult. Here is Dave at the Huff and Puff Trail sign. 

You can hike the 

Jack Rabbit trail

The Old Baldy or Superstition View trails

The Old Miner’s Trail

The Crest Trail and several others including Palo Verde and Coyote Loop. 

With so many trails you can get lost. Here my friend Esther is consulting a map with two ladies we met from Minnesota on the trail. 

Silly Mountain is a popular hiking trail and guide books say up to 50 hikers at a time can be on the trail. Since Dave had to wait for me to catch up at intervals he had time to strike up conversations with some of his fellow hikers. 

Kaaren and I hiked Silly Mountain on Martin Luther King Day, a school holiday so there were lots of families and kids out on the trails enjoying the near record-setting warm weather, including these three adventuresome teens who had left the path and scrambled up to the top of one of the rocky ridges. 

The views from Silly Mountain are definitely worth the climb. 

There are lots of beautiful cacti along the trails.
My daring friend Esther actually decided to put her hand inside a dying saguaro to see what it was like. She said it felt like wood.

I’ve enjoyed climbing Silly Mountain with each of my companions. 

I wonder who’ll I’ll climb the mountain with next?

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