YukonMontanaTannerTrapper
Explorer
PNWY.....there's no doubt about it. Dogs open closed doors.....
Ace.....no need to worry.....Trapper does it all the time. When I said "for some reason unbeknownst to me", I was referring to the location she picked to fall over. She hates the heat and is constantly stopping to lie down in the shade. It drives me nuts.....
We drove east passing by & through Tucson, Arizona.....the plan now was head south into the same general area that we'd been before. I was caught daydreaming and drove right on by my planned exit. So we drove further east and finally got off the interstate in Benson, Arizona. That wrong turn was to be the blame for our newest plan.....

That night was spent along the side of a rural road just outside of town. The following morning we drove south
along Highway 80, hung a left onto Middlemarch Road.....

.....and drove down 10 miles of mostly washboard roads.....

We passed by a peaceful road.....loved that name.....

.....eventually once again ending up in the Coronado National Forest.....

We set up camp at a trailhead (which I'll be talking about soon enough.....it was amazing).....the day was still young so we jumped into the Jeep.....

.....to explore more of these desert roads.....

When we left our campsite I really had no idea where we were going.....just getting up into those mountains was about all that was on my mind.....

Well, we ended up at this place called Middlemarch Pass (5,924').....it was beautiful there.....you could see this entire valley to the east (we'd come from the west). Now it probably won't surprise you that as I looked around and saw this higher point that I couldn't help but think "what's it look like from way up there ?".....

So we parked the Jeep and began to climb.....

Ace.....no need to worry.....Trapper does it all the time. When I said "for some reason unbeknownst to me", I was referring to the location she picked to fall over. She hates the heat and is constantly stopping to lie down in the shade. It drives me nuts.....
We drove east passing by & through Tucson, Arizona.....the plan now was head south into the same general area that we'd been before. I was caught daydreaming and drove right on by my planned exit. So we drove further east and finally got off the interstate in Benson, Arizona. That wrong turn was to be the blame for our newest plan.....

That night was spent along the side of a rural road just outside of town. The following morning we drove south
along Highway 80, hung a left onto Middlemarch Road.....

.....and drove down 10 miles of mostly washboard roads.....

We passed by a peaceful road.....loved that name.....

.....eventually once again ending up in the Coronado National Forest.....

We set up camp at a trailhead (which I'll be talking about soon enough.....it was amazing).....the day was still young so we jumped into the Jeep.....

.....to explore more of these desert roads.....

When we left our campsite I really had no idea where we were going.....just getting up into those mountains was about all that was on my mind.....

Well, we ended up at this place called Middlemarch Pass (5,924').....it was beautiful there.....you could see this entire valley to the east (we'd come from the west). Now it probably won't surprise you that as I looked around and saw this higher point that I couldn't help but think "what's it look like from way up there ?".....

So we parked the Jeep and began to climb.....
