QUARTZSITE 2016 AND SNOW ON FOUR PEAKS ROAD

 

Here are a couple of our January activities.

  

  Peter and Sue Hanewall from Beloit  visited us in January, and we took them for a ride over Four Peaks Pass. A winter storm had come and gone, and I expected the road to be fairly clear. But the higher we got, the more snow we found.  Here at the top the snow was 6 to 8” deep. Other vehicles had packed the snow on the road, so we did not slip around much. Here we had traveled 18 miles from highway 87 and had 10 more to go to drop down to highway 188 at Roosevelt lake. Duane Steen accompanied us in his yellow Jeep with a guest. We had lunch at Ma’s Kitchen near Roosevelt Lake.

 

 

 

Our Roadrunners group was at Quartzsite late in January during the annual RV Show. The number of attendees and of vendors seems to be shrinking every year. The proprietor of the Main Event area had a little car show and a “Hit or Miss” engine show. The latter turned out to be mainly an antique tractor show. Interesting.

 

Here are a couple of the custom vehicles The one below billed itself as a Rat Rod.

We have seen this tractor before. It is controlled  from the cart as one would control a wagon pulled by horse.

 

 

 

 

I had never noticed one of these before – restored Sears Roebuck tractors  powered by a Model A engine.

 

 

Here is another one I had not seen before – a large Ford tractor.