Upcoming Trips:

- February Ride: Location to be determined. (Saturday, February 25th, 7:00 A.M.)

Past Adventures:

-Vulture Mine Trip: Explore the Vulture Mine. (Sunday, November 8, 2009 from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.)

-Backway to Crown King Trail: Taking the backway, we explored some of the mines deep in the Bradshaw's. (Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.)

-Crown King Road: We will ride the front way to Crown King to have some fun exploring Crown King as well as Towers Mountain. (Saturday, December 12, 2009, from 7 a.m.- 1 p.m.)

-Belmont Mountain Trip: In this remote back country, we explored an area rich in mining; Belmont Mountain. In this trip we explored the Belmont, Tonopah, and Morning Star Mines. (Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 7 a.m. - 1 p.m.)

-Harquala Mountain Byway: In this trip we rode on the Harquala Mountain Byway. In this trip, we explored the peak, which offered amazing views as well as a mining camp. (March 6, 2010 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

-Vulture Mountain Hassayampa River Ride: On this trip, we rode the navigationally challanging trail that winds in and out of multiple washes. However, we got stuck in some unexpected water but had a lot of fun. (when: April 10, 2010, 7 a.m. - 12 p.m.)

-I'm on a quad music video shoot: We shot a video to a song we made (I'm on a Quad) near the Harquahala Mountain Byway at the Alaska Gold Mine. (Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.)

-Wickenburg Mountains: On this ride, we rode the very difficult a rocky trail to the grave of Isaac Bradshaw. While we did not have enough time to make it to Copperopolis, we had a blast. (Saturday, May 28, 2010, 6:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.)

-Tule Creek Homstead: In this trip, we rode the rocky trail to the Tule Creek Riparian Management Area. We also took a difficult side trip to the China Dam, north of the trail along French Creek. (Saturday, June 26, 2010, 7 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)

-Oatman/Laughlin Trip: In this trip, we explored the neat town of Oatman, went inside of the Homestake Mine and stayed the night in Laughlin. The next day, we walked around Davis Dam and stopped in a museum in Kingman and Wickenburg. We had a lot of fun! (July 8-9, 2010)

-Wickenburg/Congress Trip: In this trip, we went up to Wickenburg, AZ where we toured around for a while. Then we headed up to Congress, AZ to check out the Congress Mine. (July 21, 2010)

-Belmont Mt. Trail: The weather was perfect, the trail was fun (again) and we had a great time. This trail is one of our favorites and it was a lot of fun. Trail condition is still as described in the Belmont Mt. Trail page. (Friday, July 23, 2010 from 6:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.)

-Northern Arizona Expedition: In this trip, we headed up north to see Montezuma Castle, Jerome and Flagstaff. Then we stayed the night in a remote cabin just southwest of Flagstaff. The next day, we headed out to Meteor Crater and returned to the Valley passing through Strawberry and then drove along the Mogollon Rim back to the I-17. Was definetely a very fun trip! (6 a.m. Saturday, October 23- 6 p.m. Sunday, Ocotober 24, 2010)

-Hassayampa River near Wickenburg: On this ride, we enjoyed a relaxing day by the Hassayampa as we rode around for half the day. (December 19, 2010)

-Gillette/Tip Top Ride: On this ride, we set out to Tip Top and Gillete to explore some old mines and some interesting stuff. However, changes in private property blocked access to Gillete. We did not make it to Tip Top because of the change in route but we did see the old Indian fort. We look forward to returning here soon. (January 8, 2011)

-Castle Dome Mine Trip: On this trip, we had planned to go visit Swansea, near Bouse, however a Baja Race every Super Bowl weekend closed all the roads in the area. As an alternative, we decided to drive to the Castle Dome Mines in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. This plan "B" turned out to be just as fun if not more fun! We highly recommend this trip! (February 5, 2011)

-Grand Canyon Trip: On this fun trip, we headed for Williams, Arizona where we would catch our tain to the Grand Canyon. Along the way, we stopped in Jerome, Sedona, and drove through Oak Creek Canyon. Once in Williams, we stayed the night and caught the train in the morning. We spent majority of the day at the Grand Canyon walking around and headed back for Williams in the afternoon. We stayed the night just south of Flagstaff and drove back home the next morning. Overall, we were very impressed with all of the Grand Canyon Railroad staff and highly recommend this trip! (March 4, 5, & 6, 2011)

-Tip Top Mine Trail: Once again, we headed out to Tip Top Mine on Table Mesa Rd. just north of Phoenix. Our goal was to complete the entire trail, which last time couldn't be done because of changes in private property, which luckily we were able to do. The trip was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed ourselves as we explored the old mining town of Tip Top! (April 2, 2011)

-California Trip: As much as we hated to say it, we left the Grand Canyon State for a few days and traveled over to our neighbor to the west, California. We had a great time and enjoyed spending time with family and relaxing. In addition, we also stopped to visit the original boom towns of Placerville and Coloma (home to Sutter's Mill, where gold was first discovered)! Overall a very great trip, but we're glad to be back!

-Swansea Trip: On this trip, we set out again to Swansea, Arizona. Last time we tried it was closed for an annual Baja Race so we stumbled upon Castle Dome Mine instead. This time however, we did make it to Swansea! We had a great time and it's amazing to see the mining remnants there. Definitely a great place to check out! (April 30, 2011).

-Southern Arizona Expedition: This was a sequel to our Northern Arizona Expedition we took in October. Only this time, we drove all around south eastern Arizona and checked out all that it had to offer. We managed to stop in Benson, Kartchner Caverns S.P, Fairbank Historic Townsite, Tombstone, Bisbee, Cochise Stronghold, Dragoon Springs, and much more. We had such an awseome and fun trip! (May 21-22, 2011)

-Maggie Mine Trail: We took the fun and mostly easy Maggie Mine Rd. from Crown King Rd. down into Black Canyon City. We took a side trip to an old mine and settlement in the Black Canyon Riverbed. On the way back home we took another side trip east on Table Mesa Rd. to old ruins of a military fort. This was definitely a very fun trip! (May 28, 2011)

-Little Harquahala Mts. / Harquahala Mine Trail: On this fun ride, we set out into the Little Harquahala Mountains on Harquahala Mine Rd. to discover the old Harquahala, Bonanza & Golden Eagle Mines. We had a great trip and had fun with a good friend who joined us on his dirt bike. (June 25, 2011)

-Sunflower Mine Trail: On this awesome trip, we headed deep into the Tonto National Forest to the Sunflower Mine. This old mercury mine was one of many in the region and was very neat to explore. The very rugged trail was rough but fun; we even had to replace a fuel line on one of our quads near the mine! (July 23, 2011)

-Four Peaks Trail: On this trip, we headed out to the east side for an awesome ride at Four Peaks. Four Peaks Trail is a 40 mile round-trip trail that climbs high into the Tonto National Forest and offers great views of the surrounding lakes. This trail also offered hiking access to Four Peaks! We brought our buddy Andrew along again and we had a great time! (August 20, 2011)

-Watson Rd.- On this ride, we headed out to Watson Rd. for some awesome offroading! Only 20 minutes west of the West Valley, this trip was great and had some great views of the White Tank Mts.! Special thanks to our friend Andrew, for recommending this trail and showing us around out there! (September 17, 2011)

-Oatman Massacre Trail: On this trip, we're headed out to Gila Bend to ride to the Oatman Massacre Site, where the Oatman Family was attacked by Indians in 1851. Also on this trip, we also saw parts of the historic Butterfield Overland Stage Route, the Oatman Gravesites, and the Painted Rocks Petroglyphs! (October 8, 2011)

-Northern Arizona Expedition Part II- On this trip, we headed back to Northern Arizona for another fantastic trip. We toke part in the Rooms With a View Program again and stayed in a remote cabin north of Flagstaff. We saw Navajo National Monument, Monument Valley, Four Corners, Canyon de Chelly, Hubbell Trading Post, Clarkdale, Jerome, and Prescott! We had an amazing trip! (October 21-23, 2011)

-Crown King/Towers Mt. Trail- On this trip, we took Crown King Trail up to Crown King where we are visited the War Eagle Mine, Del Pasco Mine, Tiger Mine and others in the area. We had a great time riding in the beautiful fall colors mixed with some snow on the ground near the top of Towers Mts.We took our friends Andrew Arena and Jim Martin up with us and we all had a fantastic time! (Saturday, November 12, 2011).

-Anderson Mill Ride: On this ride, we headed out near Wickenburg to ride to the historic Anderson Mill in the San Dominigo Wash. We had a great ride and enjoyed exploring the numerous mines in the area! (Saturday, January 28th)