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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 39 – Kingman to Death Valley\u2026<\/h5>\n


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7 March 2021:<\/strong> Drove the rest of the way to Death Valley today, with a short stop for photos at this favorite “ghosttown” location on Hwy 95. Set up camp for the week at Mesquite Springs campground, which is one of the nicer campgrounds in Death Valley — a bit remote with a little privacy and separation between campsites \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 38 – Phoenix to Kingman\u2026<\/h5>\n


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6 March 2021:<\/strong> Left Phoenix in the afternoon and headed north towards Death Valley taking a detour through Sedona and stopping for the night at Kingman \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 37 – Phoenix with the LON Ladies\u2026<\/h5>\n


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Recovery scenarios and garage night\u2026<\/strong><\/h6>\n


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5 March 2021:<\/strong> Got out on the trail with Charlene Bower and some of the Ladies Offroad Network crew to go through some recovery scenarios, then joined the group for an informal “garage night” \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 36 – Phoenix\u2026<\/h5>\n


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4 March 2021:<\/strong> Spent much of the day working on navigation simuations and preparation for upcoming trail guiding at next week’s Death Valley event \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 35 – Cottonwood to Phoenix\u2026<\/h5>\n


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3 March 2021:<\/strong> Continuing south to Phoenix today to join up with some of the folks from Ladies Offroad Network for a couple of days \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 34 – Table Mesa\u2026<\/h5>\n


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On the trails at Table Mesa\u2026<\/strong><\/h6>\n


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2 March 2021:<\/strong> Fun day playing on some challenging Jeep trails with friends at Upper and Lower Terminator. Good day out with great people \u2026<\/p>\n

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Southwest Roadtrip: Day 33 – Cottonwood\/Sedona\u2026<\/h5>\n


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1 March 2021:<\/strong> Good to be back in familiar red rock country with some time for a bit of rest and catching up on a few administrative things. Also an occasion to discretely meetup with a few friends \u2026<\/p>\n

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\nTrail Guiding for the California 4-Wheel Drive Association’s inaugural Death Valley Experience 2021<\/a> fundraiser event running from March 10-14, 2021. Each day will feature a choice of runs to some famous, some infamous and some secretive points of interest within Death Valley National Park. The runs will depart from Furnace Creek and from Stovepipe Wells. Some of the points of interest we will visit during Death Valley Experience 2021 include Zabriskie Point (famous), Barker Ranch (infamous) and the Racetrack (learn the secret of the moving rocks). Other points of interest include Dante\u2019s View, 20 Mule Team Canyon, Artists\u2019 Drive, Chloride Cliffs, Aguereberry Point, Skidoo, Titus Canyon, and Darwin Falls. All of the trail runs are suitable for novice drivers and SUVs with high clearance and 4-wheel drive…
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COMING UP SOON:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nJoining in on a Ladies Offroad Network<\/a> camping adventure in Arizona: Five days of fun learning out on the trail and in camp with Charlene Bower and a small group of adventure-minded ladies. The event consists of three core days of trail runs and training, and two days with additional optional activities designed around the event theme…
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\nEvery Day Is a Clean Up Day<\/a> in 2021. Ladies Offroad Network<\/a> has partnered with TreadLightly!<\/a> to create a year-long program that encourages members to pick up trash on the trails whenever they are out off-roading. Participants simply pick up the trash, weigh it, take a photo, and log the location and time it took, then upload the details. At the end of the year there will be a series of prizes based on pounds of trash removed from the trails as well as participation in other TreadLightly! initiatives. This is a great way to do some good on a local level and make a larger impact via the national program…
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Looking ahead to a return to Paris as soon as possible to reconnect with friends and some favorite places in the city of light. Timing is still uncertain due to the pandemic, but we hope the trip is back on the calendar for early 2021…

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TABLE MESA<\/strong>
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\nThe Table Mesa trails<\/a> lie just north of Phoenix metro near the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains. This area started to be known as a rockcrawling destination in the late 1990s, and it remains popular to this day. Like many rockcrawling places in the Sonoran Desert, trails consist largely of sandy washes with boulders and waterfall ledges. Some years back, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) created a public use plan for this area, dividing portions up for use by off-roaders, mountain bikers, hikers, and target shooters. Now, there are a handful of legal trails in the area designated by BLM as Technical Vehicle trails. These trails are marked with a special prefix \u201cTV,\u201d which stands for \u201cTechnical Vehicle.\u201d One of the more popular technical trails is “Terminator”, which has two parts, lower TV-2 and upper TV-3. These trails are typically run one way and the Table Mesa area is well marked. The trails are difficult through a narrow, rocky wash with tight turns and huge obstacles. Winch, lockers, and 35″ tires are recommended. Experienced drivers only…<\/p>\n


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SEDONA, ARIZONA<\/strong>
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\nNumber one on USA Weekend’s “Most Beautiful Places in America list,” Sedona, AZ<\/a> is surrounded by 1.8 million acres of national forest land, with great jeep trails that wind in and out of a rugged landscape defined by pinnacles, spires, buttes and domes. Sedona’s main attraction is its array of red sandstone formations. The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun. The red rocks form a popular backdrop for many activities, ranging from spiritual pursuits to the hundreds of hiking and mountain biking trails. Sedona’s red rocks are formed by a unique layer of rock known as the Schnebly Hill Formation. The Schnebly Hill Formation is a thick layer of red to orange-colored sandstone found only in the Sedona vicinity. The sandstone, a member of the Supai Group, was deposited during the Permian Period. The early settlers were farmers and ranchers. John J. Thompson, who moved to Oak Creek Canyon in 1876 is considered the area’s first Anglo settler. In 1902, when the Sedona post office was established, there were 55 residents. In the mid-1950s, the first telephone directory listed 155 names. Some parts of the Sedona area were not electrified until the 1960s. Sedona began to develop as a tourist destination, vacation-home and retirement center in the 1950s. Most of the development seen today was constructed in the 1980s and 1990s. As of 2007, there were no large tracts of undeveloped land remaining. Sedona has played host to more than sixty Hollywood productions from the first years of movies into the 1970s. Stretching as far back as 1923, Sedona’s red rocks were a fixture in major Hollywood productions\u2014including films such as “Angel and the Badman,” “Desert Fury,” “Blood on the Moon,” “Johnny Guitar,” “The Last Wagon,” and “3:10 to Yuma”…
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HIKING AROUND SEDONA<\/strong>
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\nSedona’s Red Rocks create a paradise for scenic hikes all around the area. With so many options it can be hard to choose a trail and many visitors default to the most popular onces, which can lead to crowded stretches and a decidedly “un-wilderness” experience. Here are a couple of links to some list of less-crowded, shorter hikes from different sources: 8 Beautiful Hikes without the Crowds<\/a>, 6 Easy Sedona Hikes with Fabulous Views<\/a>, Best easy hikes in Sedona<\/a>…
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