Miami and Claypool Arizona--Mining Towns

 We didn't stop but I got a fw pictures from the car.  This is country to return to; especially in light of Globe having a museum Besh-Ba-Gowah Museum featuring the Salado People.  It includes the ruins of an ancient pueblo as well as the museum. 

Miami and Claypool are copper mining areas and I tried to get a picture to reflect this.  

mountains and cliffs along Highway 60.

Welcome to Kingman: White Cliffs Hike

 Manteca, being a western country type of town has many hikes in town as well as just outside of town.  This is a place to document those hikes.  

White Cliffs.  I visited White Cliffs when I was bringing stuff to Kingman.  It was a bit hard to find, until I relied on Google.  I was looking at the White Cliffs rode which goes under the freeway.  I was approaching from the north side of the freeway, and couldn't find the rode.  However it is ok I didn't as the road is pretty rough going that way.  Google took me through old Kingman, up above the Lee Williams High School.  

The hike goes around a pretty interesting mountain with cliffs and large boulders and interesting rock formations.  There is an upper and a lower trail.  The upper trail follows the old wagon trail, which was coming down.  The were transporting ore from a mine in the Cerbat Mountains to the rail station.  There are ruts in the rock, and holes carved out to somehow help slow the wagons as they come down.  

Reportedly the trail is recently marked, but didn't keep me from getting confused.  I thought I could cross from the upper trail to the lower and come back.  Instead I came down a draw with some pretty rough going through buses and over rocks.  

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