The Trail Pooch Team, Wicket and the Shadow Cameraman, Noel Posting from Prescott, Arizona

Hike Date: Tuesday; 07/20/2010

 
Nothing quite like a hike into the Prescott National Forest to get your blood pumping.  Check out this wild grape vine; spectacular! 

Then there is Wicket racing back to see what has delayed his shadow cameraman.


Wicket and I decided to hoof it up a canyon in the White Spar Rd area Tuesday of this week.  It is also one of the trails we take when we are targeting Bean Mountain as our destination point.  On Tuesday's hike we opted to bushwhack out of the ravine to the west and tie into an old road that eventually leads us to another obscure old road which will tie into trail 382, a trail that will lead you north to the White Spar Campground.   

Here's a little keepsake I found along the way, while Wicket was hiking in point position.
enter the feather as evidence of another great hike into the wild.

and here at the end of our trail we have come full circle.  Look closely and you'll see what's left of a modern day ruin.  Here once stood a dwelling and gift shop on leased forest land.  Not seen in this photo is an apple orchard to the upper left of the photo.  All remnants of a less hectic time of our immediate past.  I was a very young fellow when my family visited this gift shop that no longer stands.  My father bought me a small bag of Hard Rock Candy on that day; about 1960-1961 as I recall.  Thanks dad for the memory.

"Happy Trails" from the Trail Pooch team Wicket and Noel:  "Live Free, Live Wild". email: Noel@trailpooch.com
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