Sunday 11-29 Wheeling

[Tools R Us]

Exploring the corridors into the wilderness area behind 4peaks. Meeting at Baja gas station for a 10AM pullout.

 

[azrider]

Man dude, you don't waste anytime!! have fun tomorrow.

 

[ChaseTruck]

Man dude, you don't waste anytime!! have fun tomorrow.

We did have a long and hard discussion at Macayo's...

 

[DSRTRDR]

...you don't waste anytime!! ...

efficient is my middle name

 

[Tools R Us]

What a fantastic day! Pretty much unexpected, going into the Rolls from 4peaks road, wasn't expecting much, but the far end of FR401 delivered a great drive with killer views!

 

[DSRTRDR]

fantastic day

 

[Tools R Us]

4peaks was wearing a hat, all day the size/shape of it changed. The weather changed all day from sunny to rain and back to sun. A couple of times it rained pretty hard, but only for a few minutes, enough to keep the dust down and paint the desert in it's best colors.

 

[Tools R Us]

At the end of the trail there is a cool cabin.

 

[Tools R Us]

A lot of the trail is on top of ridges or shelf roads high on the side of them, so great views and often abrupt elevation changes, big climbs. With the storms, some areas would be shaded by clouds, others lit up and constantly changing the view as the clouds moved.

 

[Tools R Us]

Cant fit this stuff in a snapshot! :whoops:

 

[ChaseTruck]

I bet most of you guys didn't know that Four Peaks is actually a volcano

 

[-Spike-]

I hate you guys.

 

[Tools R Us]

I hate you guys.

Noted

 

[ChaseTruck]

I hate you guys.

A stock 80 would have done just fine. After all, the Blazer didn't blow up. Well, we did cover a lot of elevation change in just a few miles, though.

Oh, and we're doing it wrong. According to an esteemed TUT authority, we've been informed that "... Phoenix has no mountains. It's flat, brown, hot, and overcrowded...".

 

[ChaseTruck]

See, it's a Volcano - and in best European tradition, there's a "Gipfelkreuz" - and there's the ever-popular see-thru Saguaro!

 

[DSRTRDR]

I had a blast today - this frickin' thing just goes everywhere I point it

 

[ChaseTruck]

Methinks we ought to go out more often in inclement weather...

 

[murf]

purdy!

 

[clarkrw3]

Great pictures! Sorry I missed it, but Christmas decorations "had" to go up

 

[Jim S.]

You folks sure had a great 3 days out there. The scenery is awesome. Lorna & I have to get up your way and join in the fun. Thanks for the great pics.