I take the Apache Trail any chance/excuse I get. It is a beautiful trip. Please re read the caveats below. Some parts of the road are true white knuckle parts. Well worth the extra time though. Daniel T On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Mark, Johnny, & Joaquin < flag.mtn.hkrs@gmail.com> wrote: > Since Hwy 87 is closed due to earth movement. The Hkrs were thinking > about using Hwy 88 from Roosevelt Dam to the AJACS event. On some maps > we look at it is shows that it is a dirt road. The questions we ask of > the members of this list serve are as follows. > > > Is this a dirt road? > > Is it going to take us hours to get back to pavement? > > Should we just go through Globe instead? > > Should we just suck it up and sit in traffic down I17 to the 101 loop to > the 60? > > > We don't mind the dirt roads and were kind of looking forward to seeing > an area of AZ we hadn't seen yet. It would put us near AJACS around dark > on Thursday night if the road isn't so bad. > > If it is going to longer than a 3 hr cruise I think we might not take it > and just run through Globe. > > Being Mtn folk we don't do well in a packed Potbellied_Pig and traffic > snarling our path. That is why we thought we would go the way we were > going. It is miles shorter but I don't know about time shorter. > > Any and all help would be appreciated as we really don't know. > > Thanks in advance, > > ==================== > > Mark, Johnny, & Joaquin > > flag.mtn.hkrs@gmail.com > > ==================== > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >