Cottonwood Tank, Touching Catchment Canyon – 12/30/2018

Cotton Wood Tank with Table Mountain in the background. December 2018.
Cotton Wood Tank with Table Mountain in the background. December 2018.

A 2017 post shows Cotton Wood Tank sadly covered in graffiti (picture below) – thankfully between then and now the graffiti has been painted over (picture above). I was slightly surprised, since this hasn’t felt like a very wet year, to see that the tank is to-the-rim full at the moment, even higher than last year.

Graffiti covering Cottonwood Tank. December 2017.
Graffiti covering Cottonwood Tank. December 2017.

Our destination for the day was the bottom of Catchment Canyon – I thought we would have time to explore up canyon but it took longer than I guessed to reach the canyon so we touched the bottom, took some pictures and, with the Bighorn Sheep Management Area closing in two days, said goodbye-until-next-year…

Looking up at Table Mountain from the shadowed bottom of Catchment Canyon. December 2018.
Looking up at Table Mountain from the shadowed bottom of Catchment Canyon. December 2018.
Buster Mountain and Alamo Canyon - Sunset. December 2018.
Buster Mountain and Alamo Canyon – Sunset. December 2018.