Our Jeepers Creepers group had a great day running the Telegraph Canyon road southwest of Superior AZ. We began with 8 vehicles; the Carlsons could go only part way as they needed to be back in the valley by 3 PM. Covert Bailey was the trail leader and I was the tail gunner. We were the only two with CB radios. Only two other members of the group had traveled the road before, so it was a new experience for most of us.
With all of our little side trips and stops for coffee break and lunch, we were on the road over 6 hours. I would rate it as a 2.5 difficulty mainly due to the many rocky stretches and washouts. Most of the rocks were rounded, but some seemed a foot tall that we had to go over.
Here is where we turned off Highway 60 in Superior. The camera station is on U S 60 looking west. Picket Post mountain is in the center.
We are viewing the east side of Picket Post mountain here. The road continued around its south side.
We found this wide spot in the road for our coffee break.
Here is the table for goodies.
This is typical of the terrain we crossed. Lots of saguaro and prickly pear cactus, with brush on both sides of the road to give us more Arizona pinstripes!
Covert took us on a short side trip to see an abandoned stock watering tank and this multi-armed saguaro – very unusual.
On another side trip we found this old cabin. Trail leader Covert is in the middle and Robertsons are at the left.
This shows all 7 of the vehicles making the whole trip – our Grand Cherokee (left rear) two Jeep Libertys, a Toyota FJ and the rest 2 door Wranglers. Matt Peak and daughter Meagan were in the open Jeep.
Lunch time! From the left – Jay and Diane Olson, Fred Scharringhausen, Chuck Severt,
Meagan Peak, Matt Peak, Covert Bailey, Tom Gerken
Beyond Tom Gerken in white is daughter Diane, then Linda and Steve Robertson.
Several parts of our road are in this shot. We wished that it was all this smooth. Only three of us aired down.
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