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St. NichIOANas. My guess is this is what Santa looks like on December 26th.
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A view north west. Most of the canyon is dry this time of the year.
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Our destination – Battleship Mountain. The trail will take us down from the canyon side and across the dry creek (LaBarge Creek).
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The gang heads down to LaBarge Creek.
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In LaBarge Creek. Battleship Mountain is just ahead. But nobody got to it. I got the closest. The rest... well look at the next photo.
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Lunch time. Crossing LaBarge Creek is as far as we got. The gang is all here except Santa. He is getting is picture taken with another group of hikers.
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If the rest of the hikers would have traveled a little further along LaBarge Creek, they would have seen some color in the river bed.
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A view back the way we have to go to head home.
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Santa tries his luck hitchhiking. Amazingly it is December 9th, but no one would stop to give Santa a ride to the North Pole. Oh well. We are back at the marina which is the trail head. I offered Santa a ride back to Chandler.