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Flagstaff AZ during monsoon season is just about perfect. During the middle of the day it's pretty hot, so you go find a lake or shade and kick back. Cool mornings, cool evenings, and if the monsoons cooperate then you get great dramatic skies and rain to take the edge off the heat. And every moment you're spending in Flagstaff during monsoon season is a moment not spent roasting down in Phoenix.
I was up in Flagstaff last weekend, and the monsoons were cooperating. After spending most of the weekend modding bladed stuff, I decided to take my newly modded BK11 and go explore an area I want to get to know better; the Anderson Plateau.
This is an area of dry pine & juniper forests and grasslands mostly east of Flagstaff.
There are a couple good manmade fishing lakes back there, plenty of stock tanks, and apparently a lot of antelope. I'd always seen it from the window of my truck as I drove to and from the lakes, and had always wanted to get my boots dirty and wander around. This was my first chance.
I picked the Horse Lake trailhead, which meets up with the Arizona Trail for a distance.
I must have taken a wrong turn because I never saw any lake, but I for sure was on the AZ Trail.
Kind of unfortunate that this section of the trail has a two-track on top of it, but ultimately... who cares.
Big skies and nice open meadows were my playground, and a great place to try to inhale as much clean air and peace as possible. A friendly rainbow made himself available for the entire hike.
Forgive all the knife pictures; I'd just finished him that day and couldn't quit taking him out and playing around.
Never saw any real notable wildlife other than some birds, but plenty of tracks.
Cat!
Elk!
Pterodactyl!
And the droppings of the Lesser Two-Footed Turd Gobbler, a.k.a. human beings.
Hit two stock tanks during the hike and had some fun scouting around for the inevitable critter tracks, but decided to hold off on taking a swim... or a drink.
Copped a squat in this big open clearing with it's big stock pond, and would rotate 90 degrees every once in a while to have something different to look at.
Great skies mean great colors and shadows as the sun set in this slightly higher juniper forest.
This was to my right as I headed back to my truck to head home and close out a great weekend...
Thanks for reading.
I was up in Flagstaff last weekend, and the monsoons were cooperating. After spending most of the weekend modding bladed stuff, I decided to take my newly modded BK11 and go explore an area I want to get to know better; the Anderson Plateau.
This is an area of dry pine & juniper forests and grasslands mostly east of Flagstaff.
There are a couple good manmade fishing lakes back there, plenty of stock tanks, and apparently a lot of antelope. I'd always seen it from the window of my truck as I drove to and from the lakes, and had always wanted to get my boots dirty and wander around. This was my first chance.
I picked the Horse Lake trailhead, which meets up with the Arizona Trail for a distance.
I must have taken a wrong turn because I never saw any lake, but I for sure was on the AZ Trail.
Kind of unfortunate that this section of the trail has a two-track on top of it, but ultimately... who cares.
Big skies and nice open meadows were my playground, and a great place to try to inhale as much clean air and peace as possible. A friendly rainbow made himself available for the entire hike.
Forgive all the knife pictures; I'd just finished him that day and couldn't quit taking him out and playing around.
Never saw any real notable wildlife other than some birds, but plenty of tracks.
Cat!
Elk!
Pterodactyl!
And the droppings of the Lesser Two-Footed Turd Gobbler, a.k.a. human beings.
Hit two stock tanks during the hike and had some fun scouting around for the inevitable critter tracks, but decided to hold off on taking a swim... or a drink.
Copped a squat in this big open clearing with it's big stock pond, and would rotate 90 degrees every once in a while to have something different to look at.
Great skies mean great colors and shadows as the sun set in this slightly higher juniper forest.
This was to my right as I headed back to my truck to head home and close out a great weekend...
Thanks for reading.
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