Ruins, Abandoned, and Dryed Up

Kdog and I have had a few adventures together so we thought we would meet up this weekend and explore some of the Northern part of AZ and head out to the Grand Falls. I gave him a location and an approximate time we could meet up as we were both driving 140 miles to get there (coming from different directions of course :deal)

I left the house a bit early hoping to find some early morning action at Phoenix International Raceway on my out.... but there was no action at all. (strike one)

Half way to Flagstaff I deceided to put my National Parks Pass to use and stop off at Montezuma's Castle as I have never been there.

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Well that didn't last long so I booked it the rest of the way to Flagstaff and needed to find a gun shop that was open on Sunday's. For the second time in as many days I brought my pistol but left the holster sitting in the safe :bash I found a shop, the first holster they went for was of course the one I had sitting at home, so with a little thinking we rigged up a tactical holster for 1/2 the cost that they normally go for. :wink

Met up with Kdog and as we briefly caught up with each other- he wanted to go visit the shop as well- just by chance they might have a pistol he had his eyes on. Sure enough they did so a few minutes and credit card swipe later we were on our way to Walnut Canyon.

Pulling in to Walnut Canyon a sign stated that admission was free :barb due to trail closure :doh Sure enough the best we could do was shoot long range from 3 view points- the best part of the canyon being unreachable due to several large rocks falling and destroying the path. (strike two)

3. 100 mm


4. 200mm plus 2x converter- shot at 316 mm


From here it was just a couple miles up the interstate to the turnoff for the Navajo Nation and the Grand Falls. We pulled off the side of the dirt path for some lunch and I shot a few shots of old abandoned car.

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7. This little guy let me get pretty close.. shot at 54mm :huh


After we finshed our sandwiches we drove the additional 5 miles to the falls only to find they were all dried up :scratch I wasn't feeling to good at that point as this was my idea. :rolleyes (strike three)

The difference a few months makes-
8. View in March


9. View in May


Well we were here so we decided to shoot anyways..

10. Some flowers-

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Our transportation.... kdog's Jeep
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Alright lets go down to the bottom like these people
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15. Furthest I could get in March


16. It was much different this time around


I wonder if I can find a way to get up this ledge (mind you it is probably 3 stories tall :scratch) Hmm maybe over there on the far right side
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18. I made it up :barb

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Couldn't find away to get to the next tier and looking down to find Kdog was ummm... a bit spooky even for me.
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We had had enough and decided to call it a day as each of still needed to drive back to our own cities. It wasn't quite what we had hoped for but it was a decent trip none the less.