I need a reason to NOT go on the annual snow camping trip at the end of January with the Crazy Crew segment of this population, and this might just be the reminder I need. Sign me up. Toasty, IncorporatedX, HoseB and I were talking about this on our way back from unsuccessfully retrieving Hose's 90 SWB from Show Low on Sunday (we will return...and prevail!) and Toasty gave us a briefing on your initial trail report.
Senator Highway leads from Prescott south into the Crown King area, so I always think of it as traveling 'down.' The back road to C.K. is traveling mostly north and I would refer to that as being 'up.' Whatever. Senator Highway is pretty boring. However, there is a boss gun store in Prescott (shout-out to J&G Sales) that needs to be visited, so there's that.
I shall rally the 14th St club to your cause. And I prefer a designated meet-up point, defined by things other than GPS coordinates, as they tend to make my vision become fuzzy as I wax nostalgic about 'them good old days, with the paper maps and Kodachrome.' Like, let's meet up by "That Big Cactus With The Funny Looking Arms." Or something.
John B.