Safford/ Mt. Graham

 A warm and sunny day.  Becoming cloudy as night approaches.

We left a bit earlier today, 9:30, for Mt Graham.  We each thought the other had picked a hike on the mountain last night.  Neither of us had.  So we drove up the mountain road and I stopped at the first campground to ask if this was the place.  We have hiked there twice in the past.  This was the plac today too!  Part way up the trail we came to an intersection and checked the map to see where that went.  Both previous hikes went up the same trail, in 2020 we turned around due to time of day.  In 2024 we made it to thte saddle on the ridge.  So today we took the other route.  The primary trail is the Round the Mountain Trail, which as the name implies goes all the way around Graham.  Quite a long trail.  This choice took us on another portion of the RTM trail.  It all added up to a 5.1 mile round trip.  And colored in a couple more miles on our electronic Topo map.

After that we were back at the truck early enough that we went into Safford for haircuts and then a stop at DQ.  Back to camp to relax.  That is exactly what Skye has been doing this evening.  Little spare energy for toys.

Perry’s Agave

Noon Creek

When there was a fire here it left this shell of a tree

This view looks towards the other trail climbing the mountain across the valley

“I wonder if there is something hidden here”

It struck me that here was Prickly Pear Cactus on one side of the trail and moss on the other

The moss

If the ground is too rocky to sink a post, just bring the ground up around the post