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| Arizona Spring Training March 4-10, 2017 |
| Mojave Desert |
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| Sunrise on the Granite Mountains |
| I decided to take a
desert trip before it gets too hot. Got to see and old friend Rusty and
his son Cory who had just gotten out of the Marines. I also got to see
my cousin Cindy in Glendale. I hadn't seen her in 45 years. She was nine
when I joined the Navy and left New York in 1971. The Giant's beat the
Dodgers which is always a good day even it was spring training. I got to
camp along the Granite Mountains again as well as look for the trilobite
quarry around Cadiz again. I found a nice little off road area to camp
just a few miles out of Quartzite as well as explore and camp in the
Prescott area for the first time. |
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| Orange grove near Cadiz (There
are several) |
About the only housing around Cadiz |
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| Someone has posted the Trilobite collection
area near Cadiz as private property |
Mounds left by digging trenches at the Salt Company |
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| Highway 62 |
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| Blythe Intaglios mystery is the plaque is
missing (Didn't bother with them north of Blythe on
Highway 95, seen better from the air, not distinguishable from the
ground) (plaque from internet) |
| Quartzite area |
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| Camelback Ranch (Spring home of the LA Dodgers
and Chicago White Sox) |
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| Giants beat the Dodgers 4-2 |
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| Every time I am in a Metropolitan area I'm
grateful I don't live near one. (Interstate 10 went
through Phoenix on city streets when I first went through there in
the early 70s, metropolitan area population was probably under 1 million
compared with today's 4.5 million) |
| Scottsdale Stadium (Spring home of the SF
Giants) |
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| San Francisco beat Puerto Rico with a walk
off homer in the 9th |
| Lake Pleasant area |
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| Lush green northwest of Phoenix towards Lake Pleasant
area |
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| Real naturally growing tall trees (pines) at about 6000'
elevation near Prescott |
Snow capped San Francisco
Mountains from a brown dry northern Arizona |
| Granite Mountains |
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| You can camp near the Granite Mountains but
the Natural Preserve blocks access to them
http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/sweeney-granite-mountains-desert-center.html |
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