28 March 2011: Broke camp and headed over to Roosevelt Lake via the Apache Trial. Much of it is a gravel road (22 miles) and quite steep in a few places. We did not hook up the jeep to the pickup so Connie had to drive it. There are some pretty tight turns in the road and some of it is only wide enough for one vehicle. Great road though. And the views are pretty darn good also. It took us about 2 hours to drive it, but that is with a number of stops. We camped at a place we call the point over looking Roosevelt Lake. Great campsite.
At the bottom of the pass.
You can see the road angling down the side of the mountain. Some steep sections and sharp corners.
Our new camp between the saguaros.
And a few strawberry hedgehogs right by camp.
29 March 2011: Had a nice walk first thing this morning from camp. It is all uphill right at first. They are in a drought around here. The pond near our old campsite is dry this year. First time in a number of years that it has been dry. I guess that is the reason there are hardly any wildflowers around here. We headed down to Tonto basin to check out the river crossing and decided to do a kayak trip to the other side of the Lake. We had not planned on that, but the water was really calm and just could not pass it up. Nice paddle for a couple of hours. On our way out of our campsite we saw a gila monster. That is only the third one we have seen. We called this one stubby because his tail was shorter than normal. Looks like something tried to get him and ended up with just his tail. After our paddle we checked out the river crossing and picked up a few groceries at the store.
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Stubby the gila monster.
He hissed at me just before I took this picture.
A petroglyph just at the turn off the road to our campsite.
Getting my watershoes on before we carry the kayak down to the water.
This gull is making sure we do make a wake with our kayak!
Thought these cows were pretty fat even with not a lot of grass to eat.
The river crossing.
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