Shelter #1
The place
Shelter #1 in the Hualapai Mountains, Kingman/Grand Canyon Skywalk area (Mohave County, Arizona, USA), at 2279 m altitude, on the slope of Hualapai Peak, 2482 m, the highest point in West Arizona. Continuous USA Southwest cluster (batches 240-344). Primitive backcountry shelter in Hualapai Mountain Park (the only county park with a pine-juniper range at the Hualapai summit, an ecological island enclosed within the Mojave-Sonoran desert), area of Pinus ponderosa + edulis + Juniperus deppeana (alligator juniper), and of the Hualapai (a Yavapai-Hualapai people, 2,500, reservation founded 1883, Grand Canyon West on the north rim, the 2007 iconic glass Skywalk, 20 m cantilever over the Colorado + 300 free-roaming wild mustangs on the reservation).
The setting
Hualapai Mountains Kingman/Grand Canyon Skywalk Mohave Arizona USA 2279 m Hualapai Peak 2482 m highest point W AZ, continuous cluster batches 240-344, backcountry Hualapai MP only county park pine-juniper range Mojave-Sonoran island, Pinus ponderosa/edulis/Juniperus deppeana alligator juniper, Hualapai Yavapai 2,500 1883 Grand Canyon West Skywalk 2007 glass 20 m cantilever Colorado mustangs 300.
