Join the Muleteam this Saturday for our 10th Annual Hike & River Picnic. The route is about 4 miles near the river (or maybe wading in it) to the ruins of Contention City and a Spanish fort site from the late 1770's. This may be our easiest and most "civilized" hike of the year with our "gourmet" pot-luck riverside picnic. Bring your favorite dish, wine or beer to share. Dogs love the river and are welcome. Meet April 7 at 9am by the Old Bisbee courthouse fountain to carpool. Free, but gas donations are appreciated. For more details, contact Doug at 432-0307 or reiniger@wyoming.com.
The Contention City/ Riverside Picnic hike on Sat, April 7 is on, but it might get a little confusing, and here's why: We'll meet at the Courthouse at 9:00AM as planned, and all drive to the Fairbank parking lot. HOWEVER, we're not starting the hike there, but instead from a parking area on the other side of the river. We'll stop and re-group at Fairbank because a lot of people are not getting the blog and will presume we will be starting at Fairbank as usual-and I don't want to lose them. Once we're all together at Fairbank (I expect the Bisbee folk will arrive there at about 9:45AM) we will get back on Rte 82, go over the river and go right on In Balance Ranch Road (the first road with a sign on the right) and down In Balance about 1 1/2 miles to the parking lot. -Doug
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BACKTRACK - Hunter Canyon
Fourteen homo sapiens and three canines spent a pleasant day hiking with the “alleged” mine as our goal. The first part of the hike was a jaunt through a wooded creek with small waterfalls where we encountered other hikers and a large group of campers. The second portion was an incline where at one turn with a high fence, we were greeted by a wolf pack choir yelping in distress “You ain’t nothing but a hound dog.” Segment number three, which seemed to go nowhere, we climbed a quarter mile plus? down where we finally found our nirvana, a wine opening to our mine where we had lunch and exchanged Bad Jack stories. After relaxing we headed up in the heat, everyone doing the entire hike back the same way to the parking lot ; approximately a 1400’ elevation gain. One comment ”it could have been worse” teehee -a fun hike and we all had a good frolic through the woods and over the hills. -Jan B.
360 photo - https://rebrand.ly/HunterCanyon
CALENDAR
Should we end the season with the camp-hike?
Apr 14 - Slavin Gulch in the Dragoons with Sandy
April 20-21-22 - Silver Peak camp-hike in the Chiricahuas with Brad
April 28 - ?
May 5 - ?
May 12 - Possible last hike & potluck. Any suggestions?
Thanks for hiking with me,
Larry
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Muleteam archive photos - muleteam.shutterfly.com
Muleteam & Bisbee gifts - cafepress.com/bisbeegear
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