Kendrick Peak - Coconino National Forest

I began my hike up Kendrick Peak at 9:01 AM. It took me 2 hours and 58 minutes to reach the 10,418-foot summit. I finished my 9.2 mile round-trip hike at 2:38 PM. It took me 5 hours and 24 minutes. It was 93 degrees.

 

Kendrick Peak - Coconino National Forest

Kendrick Peak is a silicic lava dome, indicating that its eruptions involved viscous rather than fluid flows. It is 10,418 feet high. The eruptions occurred between about 2.7 and 1.4 million years ago. It is primarily composed of dacite and rhyolite flows.

At 10:53 AM, my friends Dave McGowan and Mike O'Leary, and I hiked 9.2 miles round-trip to the summit. It took us 2 hours and 22 minutes to reach the summit. The entire hike took us 4 hours and 47 minutes.

 

Kendrick Peak - Coconino National Forest

Kendrick Peak is a dome volcano.

 

Kendrick Peak

Yesterday I hiked 9.3 miles round trip to the 10,423 foot summit. Kendrick Peak is a dome volcano. Lava domes are formed by viscous magma being erupted onto the surface and then piling up around the vent. They typically do not have enough gas or pressure to erupt explosively. The hike took me 6 hours.

The San Francisco Volcanic Field

Humphrey's Peak

Humphrey's Peak

Humphrey's Peak

Unoccupied fire lookout at the summit.

The San Francisco Volcanic Field

 

Me on the summit of Kendrick Peak.

 

Humphrey's Peak