Cottonwood Cove: the Far Side of Coyote Buttes South
Color Streaks Through Stone Coyote Buttes South is an immense landscape with no trails. There are few landmarks and only limited information. I used Photographing the Southwest: Arizona to pick a sunrise location. Beyond that I found information scarce. Some online guide information and plenty of time looking at satellite images helped me decide where I wanted to go. The problem is that something like this on satellite: Coyote Buttes South satellite Images with some GPS locations I programmed before my trip. Ends up looking like this in reality: Coyote Buttes images from the ground: terrain looks much rougher in reality! As usual, I wanted to explore further afield in this awesome locale, searching for something novel and exciting. I like that feeling of discovery so I left the tall teepees of Coyote Buttes South and crossed that sandy 1 mile to reach the far side of Cottonwood Cove. Here I d...