My Pumpkin and "a couple of rough spots"

I didn't get around to sharing my 'happy face' pumpkin, so here he is. It's a "He" because he has no hair. Only four trick or treat kids, but they had great costumes. And I had to run out into the street to give them candy, well, most of us did. They were headed down the street to a friend's house, whose parents were taking them to town. The big fun for the kids in the Yuma area was at the territorial prison...

We did a big quad ride through the Muggins Mountains Wilderness area north and east of here. I picked the brain of a fellow geocacher, who told me a "nice ride, but it had a couple of rough spots".

Great views here and there as we did a lot of 'ridge running'. We live the other side of those far mountains, and trailered over to the beginning of this trail.

A lot of the trail followed the power lines...up and up...then down and down. Those power lines hummmmm, oh boy do they hum. And they pack a bit of a wallop, as we all found out. The first to discover the electrical sizzle was Marge', when she grabbed the front roll bar climbing into the red Razor. So if you're ever under some power lines, go ahead...grab hold of some metal. It will almost stand your hair on end...lol

That's the spot! It marks the dividing line between more experienced rider and less experienced.

The Razor came through with all four wheels off the ground...for a moment. And the guys are checking over the blue quad, which ended up four wheels on the side. Thank goodness all was well, not even any bruises. Oh, kids, that's not ours.

Then all were faced with a long steep hill of big rocks (small boulders in some cases). This is where we parted company. Three ATVs turned back, and Norman and I moved on to finish the loop trail.

We were really looking forward to the big wash, which would take us out of the mountains and onto the road back to our pickup. But this is a small sampling of what we found...MORE ROCKS! That's a pretty fair-sized ironwood tree on the right. It's great to see these bigger guys. We've been in areas, where they are gone. All cut down to burn for power for mines and little towns in the past.

It was a super ride even though we got very tired of traversing rocks. The trail has been pretty beat up from the few rain storms this year. But people are slowly repairing it, as they go over. And we arrived back at our starting point just as the others in our group were driving off...

Dusted off and hair combed, we met for beer n sandwiches AND tall tales of our day!

A last minute thought: the geocacher who told us a "couple of rough spots"? He added later, "I'll never do it again." LOL