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March 2018

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After Lost Dutchman we headed to Dead Horse SP in Cottonwood, AZ.  It was unusually cold for this time of year in this particular area.  Oddly enough our friends Tim and Glenda were in Camp Verde area.  We ended up driving over to have a visit.  We actually met them 3 years ago at this very same campground at the same time so we had a good laugh over the timing.  We hadn’t been able to meet up with them for various reasons and this was the first time in 3 years.  Good visit and we hope that we can connect in 2019. We had the ambition of hiking to the spot where the Granite Hotshots perished, a relatively new SP hiking area to memorialize these brave men.  It was a 2 hour drive and we arrived a little later than we should have and found no parking spots on the mountain.  The ranger was very nice and said we could hike for a little while and park in the 10 minute spot.  Anyway we hiked to the first granite memorial (Eric Marsh) and back. ...
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January & February 2018

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Well what a lazybones I have been over the past 2 1/2 months.  We left Florida February 1st and headed for Tucson AZ to one of our favorite State Parks in AZ, Catalina.  We spent a couple of weeks there hiking and soaking up the sun.  This year, unlike last, the coyotes were not as rampant.  Apparently it has been very dry and the ground squirrels were very late in exiting their dens so timing wise we missed the rush of the coyotes to snatch up the little critters.  The cats were happy too. From there we headed to Lost Dutchman State Park in Apache Junction for another couple of weeks.  This is one of our favorite places but it is a little more remote than other SPs so we have more “quiet time” here than others.  We did a few hikes there, photo attached on the day that we hiked to the Basin, a milestone for us!                         
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