RHH's photos with the keyword: climbing

There's a story that goes with this photo. While we were in Arizona on our recent trip I hiked the Courthouse Butte trail in the Sedona area and halfway along the loop decided to do the Bell Rock climb, but misunderstood the information I had. The climb was actually just a short and easy climb to a flat area on the north side of the butte. From there, instead of going back down, I followed what I thought was a trail and ended up on this side, the south side of the butte on the fold about two thirds of the way up which proved rather narrow and precarious. I ended up scrambling to the notch on the west (left side of the photo) and climbing down from there. The inset shows how narrow and steep the "trail" this side of the butte was. The photo was taken from the Courthouse Butte loop, a trail I hiked by myself while my wife relaxed in a hotel room in Flagstaff.

This was the "trail" I followed when I climbed Bell Rock and lost my way, a very precarious and difficult scramble along the south side of the rock.

We reached this point in our climb at about 4:00 pm. This relatively flat area of Coleman Glacier is known as the Football Field, and it was there we set up camp and spent the night in the shadow of the Black Buttes, a ragged ridge of crumbly rock that runs to the southwest from Mount Baker. The sun as it went down highlighted them and watching the light on them was part of a very enjoyable evening spent in expectation of next day's climbing.

These flowers were photographed on a tree in Fort Canning Park, Singapore. Morabeza79 has correctly identified them as Bauhinia kockiana, the Red Trailing Bauhinia. Thanks!