Here are a few pics of the terrain in my neck of the woods.

The tail of a coachwhip snake (pinkish color) in the center of this pic


Nasty stuff to stumble in to bushwhacking


One of the tallest saguaro's I have seen




A saguaro party at the top of the hill


Me wondering why I am hiking in 110 degree weather

Nice pictures
Thanks

What Bill Said. We don't get enough Desert pictures. It's barren (sort of) but pretty.

cool pics j33p

LoL who does that?

If you mean hiking in the heat, I am guilty. It's not training if it is below 100.

Wow!!!^^^

I would love to tack through there. What are some the things that you have run across, you know like old mines, settlements, gold laying on top of the ground, Native American sites, etc? Or just a lot of sand, hills, cacti, and reptiles?

Definitely old mines. Some of them are pretty dangerous since they are unmarked. You need to be careful if you are moving fast, like on a quad.

One of the coolest things I have seen was the petroglyphs around a town called Bumble Bee. This area was supposedly used by Pancho Villa and his crew to hide out. There is a waterfall there and is just a cool area in general.

The coolest native american sites I have seen are canyon de chelly and montezumas castle. Montezumas castle has amazing mud rooms, 20 or so, built in to the side of cliffs.

The coolest critters I have seen are bobcats, some huge, and western diamondbacks in the low lands by my house. I have actually had a snake in my house. A non poisonous Arizona sand snake. Scorpions are outside, in my house etc. My dog dispatches them and then plays with them. Probably get 3 or 4 a year in the house.

I have a cabin on Mt. Tritle in Prescott National Forrest that is 90 minutes away door to door. It sits in the pine forrest. There is a huge mine, Davis Dunkirk mine, about a mile from the cabin that is pretty crazy. When you walk in, you can tell the oxygen levels drop and it is dark as all get out. Bats live in there and thats all I have seen in the mine.

I have tried some metal detecting, but have yet to find anything cool, probably because I don't know much about detecting.

There are all sorts of old uninhabited buildings used by old miners around places where I shoot. Some of them are downright creepy. If walls could talk.

You've got a cabin! I wanna make my reservations for this coming weekend. Yes, I will provide the food.

You guys are welcome anytime. The property is at 6250 feet, so it is nice and cool when it is hot as heck in the low lands. There is fishing, hiking, wheeling, and shooting. I will be heading up there in a couple weeks and I will get some pics. It is beautiful county up there.

You're a lucky man.