Um. I rest my case. :-)

I think....I did suggest the east approach if those were the directions you were given, eh? Steve?

And....Hope you had a great time at the Field Day! Make any interesting/unusual contacts? We did listen to the pile-up for a few minutes on 20M & 40M, but didn't feel like getting into the fray.

And, yeah, you run across all kinds of wierd and amazing things on the back roads up here. Meth labs tend to be quite dangerous, so we try to actively avoid them. Washed out roads are common, vehicles IN them, not as common!

Trisha ~ Lightning

Prescott Valley

----- Original Message -----
From: "Team Tierra Buena"
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Prescott/Chino ValleyCachers(EspeciallyHamcachers)
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:19:02 -0700

 

> Just for a note re: stuff that should be on a map and isn't...my house or rather my neighborhood doesn't exist on many maps...wonder when it will?? And I'm

> "downtown Phx".

 

Prescott/Chino Valley is the other way around. The area, as Trisha so presciently observed, has all kinds of mapped roads that don’t exist. I found several of them on Saturday. I was able to get within .75 mile of the Field Day site from the west, but could not get to it, even on foot, without crossing posted property. And therein lies the rub. Many of the roads shown in Topo, S&T, etc., that are north and west of Prescott, are private roads. Most, though not all, allow public passage, but “at your own risk”.

Let me tell you a bit about what “at your own risk” means up there. I was driving on a graded unpaved road, trying to head east, when I came across a washout. The road had simply collapsed. In the washout was a small passenger car, the roof of which was level with where the road used to be. I’m hardly expert in such things, but looking at it, I can’t imagine that vehicle could be winched out, as the walls were near vertical. I just turned around and headed back to pavement.

Steve

Team Tierra Buena

 

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