Your Mother Should Know

Here are a few pictures from a hike to the Herrick Sawmill that I did a week ago.

More importantly, today is Mother's Day. So here is a picture of a black and white cat plus pictures of flowers.

Maurice

Picture

Last weekend was the first of two road trips to Salt Lake for the Rapids this season. I made the trip once again. The result was not good as the Rapids lost 2-0. The trip was still fun despite the result. It looks like the weather is going to be wet this weekend, so here is a where's Mike picture from last weekend's tailgate to keep you entertained for a while.

VII

I went for a walk and saw some dinosaur tracks in the rocks. There was a sign that talked about the dinosaur tracks. It was quite interesting.

Dinosaur Tracks

More Dinosaur Tracks

The Sign







Happy Birthday Cara!

-Uncle Mighty Mike

Oddz & Enz

This post contains a variety of pictures from this March. I have done posts on all of these places before. So here are the pictures.

Royal Gorge Bridge

Incline Railway

Locals on top of Fremont Peak

Just below Waterdog Lake

Waterdog Lake Sign

Me on Waterdog Lake

Waterdog Lake

Drive

I spent this weekend helping a friend move from Florida to Colorado. Driving back we basically did two thousand miles in two days. The trip was all about the drive, but I did take some pictures along the way. Here they are.

View from I-10 over Mobile Bay

Traffic going into Mobile

USS Alabama

Baton Rouge and the Mississippi River

Bridge over the Mississippi River

Red

This weekend I went for a hike at Red Canyon Park. I have been there before, but I didn’t spend a whole lot of time there. There are no trails there so I zigzagged through the park seeing the sights. I climbed up on the rocks above the canyon and wandered through the washes that run through the canyons. Here are the pictures.


These cool rocks are on private property outside the park.





Zoom view







The Shelf, where the shelf road starts








Red rocks






Different view of the private property rocks





Looking back






Looking into a canyon






In the wash of a canyon

GameDay

Here is part 2 of my Phoenix trip that took place the previous weekend. On Saturday, January the 21st, I got up early and drove to Lost Dutchman State Park to do a little hiking in the Superstition Mountains. The state park is located just east of the Phoenix metro area. I was on the trail at about ten till eight and there were already quite a lot of people out hiking. Sunrise was probably at 7:30 too. I didn’t have much of plan as to where I was going to hike. I looked at the park map and choose the hardest and longest trail. It would take me to the top of The Flatiron at 4861 feet. The hike was good choice and quite popular as well. I took the Siphon Draw Trail which leads into a steep and gorgeous canyon. The maintained trail ends at an intermittent waterfall. I imagine the only time there is waterfall there is after a good rain. There was a small pool of water at the base. It is said that most people turn around at this point, but from what I saw, a very good percentage kept going. It got rough too. It is written that in the next mile there is 1500 foot elevation gain. It felt longer than a mile. I had to use my hands quite a bit. I was rewarded with a great view from the top of the Flatiron.


Shortly after cresting the plateau, trail is down below




Looking South from The Flatiron.





Looking North from The Flatiron





A sad part about this hike is that I found out about a plane crash that happened just before Thanksgiving last year. The trail goes real close to the site. The details of the crash are extremely tragic and depressing. If you want to know more, Google it.



The plane crash site from The Flatiron














It was cold and windy on the top of the Flatiron. So I didn’t stay too long on top. Going down was slow due to the steepness and the ton of people out hiking.



The Flatiron





Looking down on the trail





Cactus on the way down





Above the dry waterfall









The pool of water at the base of the dry waterfall





Looking back at the Flatiron





Looking back one last time.






On the same day as the hike above, I attended a soccer game between the US and Venezuela. It was a meaningless friendly without the big stars, but it was still fun to attend. It had a great crowd for a meaningless game as well. The announced crowd was over 22,000 people. I would say about 95 percent of the people where cheering for the US. I didn’t see any major Venezuelan sections. I ran into a few people from Colorado at the game. Some of them I know, some I didn’t. Anyway here are some pictures from after the game.

Look for the Colorado flag behind the goal. That's where I was for most of the game.






Me on the field