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Flat Tub WMA

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Panorama view.  Near Hazlehurst, GA.

Pinhoti Trail

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Talladega NF. Near Heflin, AL. 

Piedmont NWR

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Allison Lake. ~ 20 miles from Macon, GA. 

McDowell Sonoran Preserve

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Gateway trail.  Tom's Thumb peak is in the distance.  Near Scottsdale, AZ. 924 miles in one week!  Great trip.

Camelback Mountain

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Cholla Trail, from the Saddle. Phoenix, AZ. Later the same day, from the Echo Canyon trailhead.

Taliesin West

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Frank Lloyd Wright's "desert winter camp".  He used this as a laboratory to test architectural and design concepts, and as a school for apprentices from the '30s until his death in 1959. Scottsdale, AZ, at the base of the McDowell Mountains.

Montezuma Well

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Near McGuireville, AZ. Spring-fed sinkhole. Notice cliff dwellings in upper left. Flows out to irrigation canal and Beaver Creek through crack in wall. Well outlet irrigation canal, along side Beaver Creek.

Little Horse Trail

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Near Sedona, AZ.  "Two Nuns" in the distance.

Red Rocks of Sedona

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Soldiers Pass Trail, near Sedona, AZ.

Grand Canyon

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From the South Rim, near Tusayan, AZ. Perfect 60 degrees!

Granite Mountain

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From Thumb Butte Trail, near Prescott, AZ. 

Tucson Mountains

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Nice loop from hotel, Starr Pass, Yetman and Bowen trails. Perfect 80 degrees!

Sonoran Desert Morning

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Tucson Mountain Park about 5 miles from Tucson, Arizona. 

Griffin Ridge WMA

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Bridge at entrance to WMA.  This area floods when Altamaha River is high.  Near Jesup, GA, in Long County.