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We took a drive out to Chiricahua National Monument today. It has some very interesting rock formations. First stop was for Mary to get her Passport book stamped while I eves dropped on the ranger talking about a good loop hike of 3.2 miles. Then we took a drive up Bonita Canyon, it\u2019s a dead end road that goes up in the mountains where the trails and cool looking rocks are.<\/p>\n
Sadly, my heel is still tender from the Fort Bowie walk so we didn\u2019t attempt any of the trails. I do hope we can stick around in the area long enough to go back, unfortunately they have bad weather predicted for the next few days and this our 5th night of a 5 limit stay on this free off the grid spot. Tomorrow we are headed to a park so we can do some laundry and get some more water. I\u2019m not sure what we are going to do after that.<\/p>\n
All the trails in the park were made by the CCC back in the 30\u2019s or early 40\u2019s.<\/p>\n
After we left the drive through the Monument we drove through the National Park of the same name. While the Monument had some good sized trees, the National forest had a few larger trees, Sadly a fire in 2012, I think, burned 223,000 acres and the forest is still recovering. Still the trees are the biggest we have seen in a while and was a nice change from the treeless desert.<\/p>\n
We drove a couple of dirt roads always taking the one going up, so up and up we went. Finally reaching 8383 feet in elevation. We even passed a few patches of snow and ice.<\/p>\n
Speaking of snow we have snow in the forecast for tonight, hopefully we wont get much with needing to move tomorrow.<\/p>\n