Did part of the cleator the back way loop while i was there and took the maggie mine road to bcc instead of I-17 since its been a while since i have been out that way. I really miss that area...but i don't miss the clutter of phx's urban sprall these days. Ever since anthem went in things went down hill. It was kinda nice to just sight see for a day instead of humping a pack up and down those hills out there. I noticed old Red's place on castle creek is wiped clean....guess they caught on to his 5 years of squating = patented land idea...and the crazy old coot who used to take pot shots at you near howards copper mine is gone...i think they called him the preacher or such. Red said he took a shot at the sheriff one time...
Started to head over to castle hot springs and saw real estate signs which is disturbing news.....
At least there are plenty of markers here in colorado and utah to chase down. I didn't realize it until my first oil patch job last year that the dominguez-escalante journey of 1776 went right thru my back yard here in junction. My first well was in collbran and there was a trail marker not more than 500 yards south of the pad we were on and it kinda got me to finish reading about the fathers journey and rekindled the search....gotta love it.
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