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Arizona Spring Training March 4-10, 2017
Mojave Desert
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.
Orange grove near Cadiz (There are several)  About the only housing around Cadiz
Someone has posted the Trilobite collection area near Cadiz as private property Mounds left by digging trenches at the Salt Company
Highway 62
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
Camelback Ranch (Spring home of the LA Dodgers and Chicago White Sox)
Giants beat the Dodgers 4-2
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)
San Francisco beat Puerto Rico with a walk off homer in the 9th
Lake Pleasant area 
Lush green northwest of Phoenix towards Lake Pleasant area
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
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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