Tour of the OLD West & Buffalo Soldier Footsteps

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TRIP REPORT


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Buffalo Soldiers!
Friends
Cavalry camp
Arivaca
$700 for a Ruger Blackhawk .45 long colt and .44 special. (A ganga)
Farmer's market
cemeteries,
Lake Mud Rescue (Thoreau and WildmanAZ)
La Migra
The border
Forward Operating Base Site Camp 1
Turkeys
Bats
Lizards
Danny Glover
The mean Warden from the ShawShank redemption
4Guagesurprise hard in a ditch
Taco guy recovery with his winch (1st time use)
Movie Night (Fuggin Generator)
Gardner Canyon
Vatos in our primary chosen campspot
Campsite #5
Cave of the Bells
Ruby
Kentucky Camp
Snyder Mine
Oro Belle
Dead End Trailer turn arounds
Kids
Dogs
HAM Radio
Mariachi Metal
Hydrologic Mining equipment

AND MUCH MORE
I'm working on my pictures and .gpx file.

Good Times!


BTW, found out the Buffalo Soldier 10th Cav cemetery was further south than the turnoff to Warsaw canyon. ! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!

I think this about explains it all.

Thank god we had 4Gaugesurprise's good attitude, Gunnermoose the Winch instructor, and Taco guy(Cytocycle) with a Winch. We rescued him. (Turns out 4Guagesurprise is funnier than ********. he's welcome on ANY run I ever do). It was the first time Cytocycle got to use that Synthetic cable winch...It was a WIN WIN all around (Except for 1 bumper wing that is)

CLICK HERE for the COMPLEAT Jimbolio Adventure pictures. (And Video of the winching)

Rally at the COW HORNS:

The 10th Cavalry had a Camp in Arivaca

Funky Graves in the Arivaca cemetery..Complete with BeeHive

Arivaca *cough* Lake - Mud Rescue

Caretaker at Ruby

He kind of reminded me of:

Signing in at Ruby (Parking was tight)

Old Houses in Ruby AZ

White sugar sand, only later did we discover this was a tailings pile from the cyanide processing plant above on the hill....Swell huh? It was like crossing the sahara desert. poor dogs feets were burning.

Cyanide be damned....These kids and hippie chicks were going Swimming! and Paddle boating.

Gunnermoose and Jimbolio hiked to the 2 cemeteries for Ruby.. not much to see there.

Except THIS:

Cool old Ford Truck

What we "Thought" was the 10th Cav cemetery turned out to be a civilian graveyard...California Gulch Cemetery...BUT it was very fun looking for and finding this one.

MOVIE NIGHT!

Old US Border Patrol Forward Operating Base Site (Camp #1)

Sl33pr demonstrates the finer points of his MOAB Fort Trailer

 

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Jimbolio's new awning
Which turned out to be Surprisingly easy to make and worked very well.

Pottie stop at the Tumacacori mission in Tubac

Of course THIS happened right after Malta Jo bailed out. less than 3/4 mi up FS143 - the "Bull Springs 4x4 trail". Turns out it WAS 4x4 for some.

Climbing up the Bull Springs Shelf Road, by the Pinching Boulder

Strait Axle Show off....End of the Bull Springs Trail

Bravest calf on the planet...This little feller ran in front of my FJ for 250 yards before he got off the road. Beep Beep little Veal steaks

Reviewing the big topos with our routes and stopping points...take note of the Buffalo Soldier figurine...Courtesy of 4Guagesurprise

CAMP #2 in Gardner Canyon had a Wild Turkey running around in it when we arrived. This is actually Campsite #5 in the FS inventory of Gardner canyon...One word...Metalachi

many adventures await us in the Santa Ritas

Hiked up to Cave of Bells (group shot)

Decided AGAINST repelling down to the locked gate - it was a 20' drop down to there

But we DID go into the Snyder Mine - where we were greeted by THIS just inside the entrance...Looks like spock is spooked.

The mine was VERY cool though - and still had the elevator shaft

Watch your Head

Black Light Bacon fossil...Sorry it's a little out of Focus..My nikon didn't know how to deal with the black light

Ended up our Tour in Kentucky Camp - Hydrologic Mining operation - this was the Hotel

One of the Nozzles

 

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I have a .gpx file of our run if someone can tell me how to do an attachment?

buffaloSoldier.gpx

 

[Woodsman]

Great adventure !

 

[VDBAZFJ]

I had a great time on this run. Jim you did a great job as always.

Made several new friends

Learned my trailer design sucks and needs a re-do.

Also learned that trailers can be a nuisance when exploring. Still love having it though.

Ruby was...interesting.

So close to the border yet I saw no illegals wanting to kill me. No cartel wanting to kill me. Hmmm...

I will post some pics once I get mine hosted.

Can't wait for the next adventure!

 

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Did I screw up and post this in the wrong place and 'hurt' people's feelings.

STOP IT!