Hiking at Lost Dutchman State Park

Jason was awesome and agreed to go hiking with me. We went to Lost Dutchman, which is my favorite place to hike. It’s nice to see snow where you don’t normally do not. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful hike.

Hiking Cottonwood Trail 120

Three days in a row we hiked and to finish our hiking experience this last weekend we hiked 4.65 miles and ventured a 911 feet elevation gain. We were on a trail and and merged onto the forest service road. The road was super steep at some parts that even going back down was tricky.

It was chilly so Jason were his leather jacket. He probably never thought he'd wear a leather jacket on a hike but it was the only one he had.

This picture showed part of the road we conquered with a great view of Roosevelt Lake. 

 We saw a cave that made us wish we had binoculars.

These cows were frightened by us and were going uphill to scramble away.

Jason and I enjoyed our hike. We were thankful for jackets since it was cold outside and by the time we were near done it started raining. We were so thankful it didn't start raining while we had to far to go.

Exploring in the desert

Today we went to Reymert, Arizona. We visited the old Reymert Mines. It was an interesting place.

It was hot and we had to walk over a mile to get to the site. We ventured to the desert to use Jason’s new metal detector. The only object we found is a 1965 dime. We did gain memories and plan on coming back when it’s cooler.

He also has a metal detector wand.




Our car was filthy from the drive but in the picture you couldn’t see all the dirt.

Turkey vultures circling.


A small cactus growing from in between rocks. At the first glance I thought it was growing on the rock.

A group of five cattle walking by.



The remains of two processing kilns.









It sure was spicy outside. My middle child’s way to say it’s hot out.



Jason digging to look for the metal the detector was beeping at. It was just an old piece of metal.

Jason standing by an old rock wall.

You can see the remnants of a rock wall.

According to Wikipedia these are stacked stone foundations.

Kendree and Kindsey sitting in the shade. We ate grapes, carrots and grape tomatoes as a snack.

You can google Reymert Mines or Reymert, Arizona. Nice history and the desert is beautiful. 

Even though today it was hot is was not too bad in the morning when we visited the historical site. We drove for about an hour from our house. It’s nice to get out and do something different.