Desert hiking photos

[Czubek]

Originally Posted by buzgun

People from the midwest have a hard time appreciating just how hard it can rain out here.....I have been caught in a bad rainstorm just once......I was hiking in oak creek canyon in the summer and i just climbed to the high ground and went into a cave and rhode it out.

I remember vividly my grandpa telling us never to play in the washes around their cabin in the Johnson Valley. We did anyhow, until we saw how fast they can become death traps. There was one of those "gullywashers" what seemed a pretty fair distance away that filled the wash behind the cabin, and it filled fast.

Brian

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by Czubek

I remember vividly my grandpa telling us never to play in the washes around their cabin in the Johnson Valley. We did anyhow, until we saw how fast they can become death traps. There was one of those "gullywashers" what seemed a pretty fair distance away that filled the wash behind the cabin, and it filled fast.

Brian

A couple of years ago a entire family camping in a wash got killed because of a isolated rain storm in the mountains miles away from them.

They were consumed by a dirty tidal wave of muddy water and branches.

[remus]

I think you see the snakes in the neighborhood because it's a little cooler and there is water. They love water, it's one of their favorite things. Out in the hinterlands all they got is a bush to get under or a rock. Everything's hot.

[10 Bears]

Originally Posted by buzgun

A couple of years ago a entire family camping in a wash got killed because of a isolated rain storm in the mountains miles away from them.

They were consumed by a dirty tidal wave of muddy water and branches.

Bring to mind an incident I experienced while riding a bike across S.Arizona.

Down a shallow valley I could see a cops lights at the very bottom by a concrete bridge over a gully.

He was talking to cars approaching and when it became my turn he asked me if I lived 'back there' or was I traveling through.
I told him I was on my way to California.
He told me to carry on because this bridge might not be her in a little while.

I look up canyon and there's a dust cloud coming this way, it was about a mile away at the time.
I put the bike in gear and cruised up the little grade a ways and pulled over.
Watched that cloud of dust as it came closer.
The cop had put up barriers and was stopping all traffic by this time.

The leading edge of the flood was a flotsam of mud, twigs, branches, logs and worst of all it was also composed of boulders being carried by the flood.

The leading edge of the flood was over the bridge just seconds after hitting it and you could see the boulders pilling up and going over the road.

I stayed there until it finally settled down and the bridge was really gone.
Those rocks had blasted it and the water had carried it off down stream.

NOBODY could have survived that flood it they had been caught in it.

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by 10 Bears

Bring to mind an incident I experienced while riding a bike across S.Arizona.

Down a shallow valley I could see a cops lights at the very bottom by a concrete bridge over a gully.

He was talking to cars approaching and when it became my turn he asked me if I lived 'back there' or was I traveling through.
I told him I was on my way to California.
He told me to carry on because this bridge might not be her in a little while.

I look up canyon and there's a dust cloud coming this way, it was about a mile away at the time.
I put the bike in gear and cruised up the little grade a ways and pulled over.
Watched that cloud of dust as it came closer.
The cop had put up barriers and was stopping all traffic by this time.

The leading edge of the flood was a flotsam of mud, twigs, branches, logs and worst of all it was also composed of boulders being carried by the flood.

The leading edge of the flood was over the bridge just seconds after hitting it and you could see the boulders pilling up and going over the road.

I stayed there until it finally settled down and the bridge was really gone.
Those rocks had blasted it and the water had carried it off down stream.

NOBODY could have survived that flood it they had been caught in it.

Seeing the state of AZ on a motorcycle is something i always wanted to do.....a fellow could go to places you just cant reach in a car or even a 4-WD vehicle....And is a totally different experience

[buzgun]

Originally Posted by remus

I think you see the snakes in the neighborhood because it's a little cooler and there is water. They love water, it's one of their favorite things. Out in the hinterlands all they got is a bush to get under or a rock. Everything's hot.

Tobe honest....I think there are more rats in the neighborhood that live in sewers....and this is the reason im seeing all the snakes.

The rats out here are about the same size as a field mouse would be to someone from the midwest .

[Sanders]

There are some pretty good flash flood videos on youtube if a person is inclined to search for them.