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Happy Easter!  We spent the day hiking in the Superstition Mountains on the Siphon Draw Trail to goes up to Flat Iron.  This trail is up in the Lost Dutch State Park off the Apache Trail.  It was a perfect day for hiking... sunny and warm but with a cool breeze.  It actually even got a bit cold up on top of the mountain! 

Here is 3 pictures of the Trail from the bottom (could not fit it all into one picture so you see to the left, down the center, and to the right)

"We're not going to the top this time". This is what we said as we started off the hike....   The beginning of the trail is long and boring - you have to park quite a ways from the actual trailhead.  And even the beginning of the trail is pretty much constantly up and on loose rock.  But once you get to the big flat rocks (where it gets its name from) the hike gets more interesting. 

We saw the Easter Bunny at the beginning of the trail (a jack rabbit)

Here is both Joe and Amy on the way up

Once we passed the flat rock (the rock itself was flat, the path is very much straight up), Joe decided to blaze his own trail straight up the middle - which wasn't so bad going up but the thought of coming back down that way wasn't pretty.  But we made it and after asking a few other people where they thought the path went, we decided to just try one off to the right.  Turned out to be a good choice because this was the first time we were actually following a real trail.  We went all the way up the right side of the mountain out to the front to an overlook.  But we weren't finished there - we decided to back track a bit and try to get up to the summit trail and head back towards Flat Iron.  We made it as far as we have ever gone before... to the point just before the hug inclue to Flat Iron.  Flat Iron is the highest peak.  I don't know that we will ever make it up that far because I think you have to actually climb to get up there... no thanks!

Here is a view of Flat Iron from the summit trail.  If you look closely, there were actually people that made it to the top - I zoomed in so you could see them in the second picture.

We actually followed the trail all the way back down.  I think we probably climbed about 3000 ft - the Flat Iron summit is at ~4000ft.