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New Year’s Day hike OR Life’s a balancing act

01 Gaelyn climbing fence to Weaver Mts (810x574)

Second year for a New Year’s Day hike might be the beginning of a new tradition. 

I love being able to hike right outside my door.  Well, actually we usually drive the 1.5 miles to park near the gate, then off we go, up into the Weaver Mountains.

02 View W Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

I know I’ve posted before about hiking in the Weavers, in fact that’s where last year’s first hike was as well.

03 Property for sale sign Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

I would love to live up here but the properties are just too expensive plus would have to bring in utilities from the access road.  Out of my budget even though I’m kind of looking for a place to call my own.  And, no I don’t have horses.

04 Mike looking for gold Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

Mike thinks there’s gold and looks at every black sand opportunity.  Hope he finds a big nugget one of these days then could afford to buy the land, and keep golding.

05 Rock gateway Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x767)

Although there are no houses built up on these many acres obviously someone had a dream.

06 Balacing boulders Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

It’s a real balancing act….

07 Balancing boulder Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x719)

I’m talking about life here.

08 Balancing boulder Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

Maybe I should start off small.

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Welcome Home Walk in the Weavers

01 Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

I went for a walk in the Weaver Mountains yesterday

02 Mike Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

with a friend.

03 Heart shaped prickly pear cactus Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x599)

This would make for a prickly valentine.

04 Prickly pear cactus fruit Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x591)

As did the luscious fruit

 05 Inside prickly pear cactus fruit Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

when I ate a small piece and got a tiny hair-fine spine in my tongue.

06 Two-trick into the Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x583)

So nice to have this remote high desert place with a rarely used gravel two track within a mile of home.

07 Deer track Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

We didn’t walk alone.

08 Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The Poplar hangs on by a pool of water.

09 Granite Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

The surrounding boulders of granitic plutons exposed to the surface by the power of erosion over time.

10 Dried flowers against the sky Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

There are 4-9 acre lots for sale here that are priced sky high.

11 Two Ravens harrass a Redtail hawk above Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x740)

But ya’ gotta’ have a dream.

12 Ravens in tree Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

We walked up to a different lot than last time.

13 View of Congress from Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ pano (800x147)

What a grand view of Congress in the valley about 2000 feet (609.6 m) below,

14 View of Congress & beyond from Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x599)

and beyond perhaps 60 miles (96.5 km).

15 Vantage rock of Congress view Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x578)

It may not be like looking into the Grand Canyon but from this vantage will do for a while.

16 Eroded granite along dry wash Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x396)

Our return walk followed a dry wash where the old yet recent flows of water revealed its erosive power.

17 Bright galls on oak Weaver Mts Yarnell AZ (800x600)

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon for a walk in the high desert Weaver Mountains yet the bright ornament-like galls on this oak reminded me of Christmas coming.

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MWT – More Weaver Mountains


I guess you’ll be seeing a bit more of the Weaver Mountains because they are in my back yard.

Balancing rock
How wonderful to walk under a clear blue sky in the high desert, about 50F with barely a breeze in the late afternoon.

Lichen on granite
My heart is set free and my mind wanders over the land further than my feet will tread this day.

Vulture Mts about 60 miles in the distance
I could live here enjoying the view over morning coffee.

Cholla
Need to get up there in the morning to see the light. Yet at 25F as the sun rises I don’t think that will happen soon.

Land four sale
I really don’t want to see this land developed but with the current housing crunch I don’t think they’ll be selling soon. These 4-9 acre properties are listed from $65,000 to 175,000. Utilities have been brought in along the access roads.

Some of the many curves of Highway 89, left to Yarnell and right to Congress
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