Trip Information:
Land Rovers: LR4 and 2 Dormobiles
Drivers: All women!!
Diva: Grace
Trail: Queen Creek
At the trail line-up we took this picture with Bill Burke. Bill Burke is an awesome off-road guy. He put us on his Facebook page. You can also check out his website. My Mom, Dad and the other Diva Dad's took a three-day trail leader training course from Bill Burke in January.
I had to go on Queen Creek since my Mom was a trail leader. I was a little disappointed since the other divas were going on a different trail.
This the LR4 on our trail. It was its first time in low range, extended mode and off-road. Awesome!!! Get Dirty!!!
These are the wagon tracks. When I think of wagon tracks I think of little skinny wheel tracks that don't even make an impression on the ground. These are different. They are from ore carts from a silver mine that was run between 1887 - 1909. You can even see where the hoofs of the horses were.
Next we went to the old townsite of Pinal. This was a can lid we found. There is lots of cool junk left, but the buildings are just mounds of dirt
Updated Trip Information:
Land Rovers: LR4, 2 Dormobiles, 4 Discos, 1 Range Rover, 1 G-Wagon with Land Rover Badges (it was funny!!)
Drivers: 3 women and some boys
Divas: Grace, Izabella, Sydney, Samantha and Sophia
Trail: Still Queen Creek
At lunch all of the trail leaders from the rally, who did not have a trail joined us for the rest of the day. In the end there were 7 trail leaders on my Mom's trail. Who was the trail leader?? They were all fighting over it and kept passing each other to be the trail leader!!
After lunch we headed up to the rock shelters. Here are the LR4's boys exploring one of the rock shelters. These rock shelters are between 800-1000 years old. We found pottery that dates back to that time.
There are also Pictographs and Petroglyphs at one of the rock shelters.
We went in with 3 Land Rovers and came out with 7 Land Rovers and 1 German Thing!!
It turned out to be a very fun day!!!
I love the German thing comment! The German thing is a Mercedes G-Wagon.
ReplyDeleteYeah! it was pretty awesome to get a picture with Bill Burke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many pounds of Apache tears did you collect that day? I have a bunch from the Friday's trip!
ReplyDeleteGreat job Grace, as short as the Queen Creek trail is, there is always something new to find or explore! On Friday, we had fun hiking further back in the canyon near the rock shelters.
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