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[COLOR=#ff8c00]HAPPY THANKSGIVING!![/COLOR]
For the 6th annual T-Day in the Desert, a group of us headed to the Florence Junction area of Arizona. Sergio (50yj) has been trying to drag me out to play in AZ for a while now. And I'm glad that we did! What a great place to play!
WEDNESDAY
Driving into AZ, I was amused by the Holiday warning. We saw probably 4 or 5 of these:
Kurt (RAT), Chuck and Alycia (Dirtman13), Cliff (CVD), and Sharon and I met at the prearranged spot off of Cottonwood Cyn Road. we set up camp and Kurt tended to a nail that he found in a tire before he left SoCal:
Everyone settled in:
And enjoyed nature's sunset show:
THANKSGIVING DAY
We woke to find Kevin and Chris (1 BAD F N Z) had arrived in the night. After they set up in camp, Kevin found that the Cruiser wouldn't start. He opted to stay in camp and take a look at her instead of going on the run.
I have been to the Florence Junction area only once before in a Jeep. I ran only two trails and we didn't run them this time. So everything was new to me except for the roads that connect some of them. Sergio hadn't been on most of them either, so the trails were new for all of us.
For T-Day, we all needed to be back early to cook for T-Day Dinner, so I picked some 'easier' trails that were said to be in very pretty terrain. We headed east into Superior, AZ and ran Powerline and Hackberry Creek trails.
"Powerline" is a deceiving name for this trail. It should be called "Chunky Monkey"!:
Kurt lost the use of his front locker at an unfortunate point:
After we got back to camp, he found that the copper tube on the ARB had snapped off in the pumpkin.
Chuck had to work a bit to get around to give him a tug. Here's a quick vid:
We took a side trip to over look Devil's Canyon. It is a cool place lined with lots of hoodoos:
Back on the Powerline Trail, the chunky track continued:
We rounded the south end of the trail and started north on Hackberry Creek. It was a good bit calmer trail, but in a shallow canyon lined with more hoodoos:
Once back out on the road, we stopped in Superior for gas and supplies before heading to camp to cook.
We got back early and with plenty of daylight. Everyone had something that they were doing to get ready for dinner except for Cliff and I. So we took off in search of a ghost town called Reymert. We stopped by the petroglyphs at Lower Woodpecker (closed to vehicles):
The view on the way to Reymert:
Reymert turned out to be more impressive than I expected. It has remains of some very well build walls and foundations, but the main features are the bank vault and some sort of kiln:
When we got back to camp, we found that Kurt had some more carnage. His turkey fryer pot had melted a hole in the bottom!:
Luckily, Kevin had another fryer, so we waited until his turkey was done before starting the second one in the same pot.
It wasn't long before Kurt was carving the birds:
And we were digging in for the feast! Good food and way more than we could eat!:
Later, while we were rubbing our bellies around the fire, Russ Chung stopped by with pecan pie. It was a nice evening with friends.
To Be Continued.....
For the 6th annual T-Day in the Desert, a group of us headed to the Florence Junction area of Arizona. Sergio (50yj) has been trying to drag me out to play in AZ for a while now. And I'm glad that we did! What a great place to play!
WEDNESDAY
Driving into AZ, I was amused by the Holiday warning. We saw probably 4 or 5 of these:
Kurt (RAT), Chuck and Alycia (Dirtman13), Cliff (CVD), and Sharon and I met at the prearranged spot off of Cottonwood Cyn Road. we set up camp and Kurt tended to a nail that he found in a tire before he left SoCal:
Everyone settled in:
And enjoyed nature's sunset show:
THANKSGIVING DAY
We woke to find Kevin and Chris (1 BAD F N Z) had arrived in the night. After they set up in camp, Kevin found that the Cruiser wouldn't start. He opted to stay in camp and take a look at her instead of going on the run.
I have been to the Florence Junction area only once before in a Jeep. I ran only two trails and we didn't run them this time. So everything was new to me except for the roads that connect some of them. Sergio hadn't been on most of them either, so the trails were new for all of us.
For T-Day, we all needed to be back early to cook for T-Day Dinner, so I picked some 'easier' trails that were said to be in very pretty terrain. We headed east into Superior, AZ and ran Powerline and Hackberry Creek trails.
"Powerline" is a deceiving name for this trail. It should be called "Chunky Monkey"!:
Kurt lost the use of his front locker at an unfortunate point:
After we got back to camp, he found that the copper tube on the ARB had snapped off in the pumpkin.
Chuck had to work a bit to get around to give him a tug. Here's a quick vid:
We took a side trip to over look Devil's Canyon. It is a cool place lined with lots of hoodoos:
Back on the Powerline Trail, the chunky track continued:
We rounded the south end of the trail and started north on Hackberry Creek. It was a good bit calmer trail, but in a shallow canyon lined with more hoodoos:
Once back out on the road, we stopped in Superior for gas and supplies before heading to camp to cook.
We got back early and with plenty of daylight. Everyone had something that they were doing to get ready for dinner except for Cliff and I. So we took off in search of a ghost town called Reymert. We stopped by the petroglyphs at Lower Woodpecker (closed to vehicles):
The view on the way to Reymert:
Reymert turned out to be more impressive than I expected. It has remains of some very well build walls and foundations, but the main features are the bank vault and some sort of kiln:
When we got back to camp, we found that Kurt had some more carnage. His turkey fryer pot had melted a hole in the bottom!:
Luckily, Kevin had another fryer, so we waited until his turkey was done before starting the second one in the same pot.
It wasn't long before Kurt was carving the birds:
And we were digging in for the feast! Good food and way more than we could eat!:
Later, while we were rubbing our bellies around the fire, Russ Chung stopped by with pecan pie. It was a nice evening with friends.
To Be Continued.....
Bitchin trails redo whenever you are ready and I can get time off.
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