Pinnacle Mountain

On Saturday I decided to stop by Pinnacle Mountain State Park. It is one of the closest state parks to me and I have driven past it I don't know how many times.  Pinnacle Mtn. is the middle hump in the picture below.  It ended up being a really neat park with horse back riding ($25/hr), paddle boats, hiking trails, and a really neat climb.  All of the other state parks I have been to have a road all the way to the top of the mtn., but this one you actually had to climb to.  I will definitely be going here again since it is so close and is a great work out.  I talked to my neighbors today and they told me about a trail on the mtn. that leads you to a big waterfall as well!!

awesome pic online

My pic

It may be hard to tell who is helping who.

Pinnacle is only 1,000 feet but it was neat to see how quickly you were rising. My ears actually popped at this point. 

Lake Maumelle is on the right and those two humps are called Maumelles Pinnacles. I am now looking forward to climbing them.

There is a west summit trail and an east summit trail but people were climbing up from literally every angle. I have no idea how this person was free climbing. 

There is Lake Maumelle again. It is part of the Arkansas River.

I was about to take a picture off in the distance and this guy popped up on top of those rocks. So I waited until he went away but I still got him in the picture when he was coming around!