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A few days back our youngest got suspended from school for reasons the school found much more serious than his mother and I. I happened to have the day off work and he and I disappeared set to find some adventure. On this super sunny day, even for February, we had no shortage in full on sunshine. And ended up in Sierra Vista. I had intended on ending the day with some museum tours on the army base, but alas all of the museums were closed for maintaince.
I was very surprised to see so much snow in the mountains still.
Nothing like I grew up with in Wyoming
but for the desert wow.
Mostly wow, because this was the last forecast out of Tucson for the week.
Yes the good ol ground hog saw his shadow,
dooming us to more weeks of this...
ummmmmm OK!
Today we ended up just past this sign.
And learned the hard way not to park in the trail head parking lot.
We also learned a little bit more how much our youngest really is like his mom, just look at this picture. ;)
At first from the parking lot we took off up the paved road.
This soon became boring but I did manage to snap some good pictures before turning back.
Running water in Arizona is so rare I always get pictures when I find it.
Near the water deciding if we should pass into private property or not.
For once, we did not.
Some extra large magical shrooms fed by the stream.
From this point we took off cross country mostly straight up hill.
It seems that the best views and Exploring is always up hill.
And I really thought we would hook into a trail from the top.
You can just make out parts of Sierra Vista from here.
The view and the climbing up soon became boring and we ventured down to the road again.
On the way back to the parking lot and our car we found this great parked car forever parked.
Now that it was much warmer, we dropped off our coats in the car
and ventured down the real trail.
Soon spotting another car that was not moving any time soon.
Down a very boring trail we soon came to the end.
We did see several deer making the trip a little more exciting.
At this point we realized, if we where to return here, to
drive down the dirt road to the farm house and than start our Exploring.
The trails from here looked amazing.
How did they know, I was old and would be Exploring here...?
Around the old ranch.
I am always a sucker for old windmills.
Near the large pond and reserve for frogs.
The only frogs we witnessed on this day.
Time to check out another trail!
More snow in the distance.
Bad picture but pretty sure the distant hills where running water
as water falls.
Just after this we found ourselves on the huge army base.
And might or might not have been lost for a little while.
I have heard that one of the first McDonald's drive through was near base to cater to the hungry soldiers.
Sadly on this day the museums were closed for maintenance.
The base is still amazing to Explore and in tip top shape for sure.
Even picture perfect one might say.
Close up of the blimp that hangs around Sierra Vista most sunny days.
I have asked before what this is for--
and have got so many answers.
Unfortunately none of the answers match each other.
As always
**HAPPY TRAILS!**
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