Desoto Mine Trail 01/08/06

We had an excellent ATV adventure on the Desoto Mine trail again. This trail has everything there is to keep your full attention such as hill climbs and descents with obstacles, boulder crawling in the creek, (with ice) and off camber. This is a good trail to test your ability, but not for the novice. This trail is listed in the book Backcountry Adventures/Arizona Off Road as an extreme trail. This trail could seriously hurt you if you are not careful. We also found a very big mine that we climbed up to get a good view of it. I think it is the Middleton mine. (According the people in Cleator) Jim and I went into one mine about 50 yards or so and it made a turn then went down very steep. I could not see the bottom.

What an excellent day, we went from the desert to the pine trees and back. The white stuff in the creek is ICE.