Sutter Buttes - A docent-led tour - Photos by Ed Murach and Dennis Ratay
![Owl houses](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0204.JPG)
Bat houses
![group](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0209.JPG)
The group on the cross country trek
![North peak](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0219.JPG)
North Butte - frequently in sight
![docent](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0223.JPG)
The docent leader, Joe Rousser
![target peak](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0230.JPG)
This peak - Old Man Peak - will be our highest point
![](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0239.JPG)
Volcanic crags in the Buttes
![Mt Lassen](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0252.JPG)
View of Mt. Lassen
![view](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0254.JPG)
View from the peak
![view](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0257.JPG)
Spectacular view
![](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0259.JPG)
Orchards in the edges of The Buttes, and distant rice paddies
![rest at the peak](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0262.JPG)
Brief rest at the peak
![lunch break](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/sutter00.jpg)
Lunch break
![ranch](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0265.JPG)
Dean Ranch homestead
![](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0278.JPG)
The group on a cross country march
![sharing the road](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/sutter02.jpg)
Sharing the road with a resident
![skull](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/sutter01.jpg)
Not all cattle survive in the Buttes
![lava cliff](http://lincolnhillshikers.org/Photos4/IMG_0281.JPG)
Lava cliffs on North Butte