Salt River Canyon & the Self Road Adventure

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I figure the 4x4 section could use a bit more pics & stories of the rigs in action to go with all the excellent builds & tech

Well with a bit of time between Christmas & New Years the need to play in the dirt was strongly felt. The real question was where to go? Southeast Arizona has a ton of ghost towns and history (Tombstone, Bisbee and more). Western Arizona held some areas I had recently played and want to see more of. But then the memory of passing by the Salt River Canyon on US 60 came back to me and luckily my buddy Waymon was ok with going somewhere neither of us had been before.


But before we get to the juicy off road bit we all have to admit that there is that nasty bit of highway that has to be covered. Lately I have really been trying to make an effort to find things along the way of interest and in this case we got to spend a bit of time at one of the littlest Arizona State Parks, the Boyce Thompson Arboretum , this is a very cool place to hike around and spend some time trying to figure out what in the world was the original idea

I will admit it is very cool to find out about the thing Arizona & Australia have in common as we are planning to spend some serious time there Summer 2012.



Waymon and Lexi (that is the dog) were also getting a kick out of the pet friendly location.



Since my wife is from Peru I am always interested in thing from South America...but again it is just odd to have this in Arizona.