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That sticker looks awesome! Thanks for the support and for posting the pic!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the timeline, that's cool to see.

Wow!! Thanks for sharing the pic! Awesome buck! that will keep any archer in a stand for days on end!

I bought a table, so let's hope we can get 5 more to sit with us. Come on guys, help out the kids and enjoy a GREAT pig roast dinner! If we don't get more CW.com members to go, then I will donate the tickets to the 0E4A kids, so they can attend and eat. Eddy had asked for groups to donate tickets for the kids to attend. You can pay me at the banquet.....tables cost a little more than individual tickets.....$80 each. Some very sad news....the guest speaker from last year's banquet, Thomas Widenhofer, is expected to only live a few more days. Chris and Eddy went to visit Thomas in Pennsylvania last month, essentially to say goodbye to the young man who was their first OE4A kid and one that is so important in the hearts of Eddy, Chris and so many others. Let's pray for a peaceful passing and that his family has the strength to go on without him.

Wow, that's quite a story! I am glad you didn't end up in the bottom of that mineshaft!!

I enjoy these as well, but hadn't thought about doing it with cold water for iced coffee....thanks for the tip!

Actually I think the two fires started the same day, and according to the USFS the fires are burning toward each other.

Lance just sent me this picture of the meat he has been smoking since yesterday. This is for dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday! YUMMY!! He says he cold smoked the chicken for 8 hours, then he will finish cookin on the grill at camp tonight. The pork roasts were on the smoker for 21 hrs! And will be in the oven for a few more before being reheated on the grill tomorrow at camp. It's not too late to come up and join us for some great food and fun!!

Yes, we knew about the fire restrictions....it was the same last year. Not a problem.

Just got some info on fires on Mt Graham from the biologist....she said one fire is up high between ash and frye creek, one high in deadman, and one down south of 266.

Ok, then we have room for 5 more....

I just came down from Mt Graham this morning (Thurs)....no fire at that time. I could see several fires burning in the valley to the south though. I hope the mtn isn't burning....it's a real tinder box right now.

LOL! awesome! here is one for you:

Yes, there is room. I think Ajohunter and his wife won't be able to make it. So, let's hear from the people who are sure they can make it! Roger and Ilene Amanda and Paul Bonecollector, you still in? who else wants to go? Great food, fun times and a chance to help some kids who really can use our support!

Welcome and thanks for signing up so you can share your hunting adventures with us!

Whose truck is this?

It is disappointing to see three bears killed with no proof they were involved. Let's hope one of them is the culprit so they don't have to go kill more.

There is a group of people hiking the Grand Canyon and they had a cacellation and so there is room for one more adult woman. You can probably work out a carpool (I think he is taking a 12 passenger van from Globe). Probably stay overnight or maybe two nights down at the bottom in Phantom Ranch. The accomodations are broken up by sex, which is why they want one more lady to fill a cabin. for more info contact Bob Zache. I know Bob personally and he teaches hiking classes here in Globe and is a great hiker to go along with on a trip like this. So if you are interested email him: rzache@cableone.net

Have a great one! And thanks for your many contributions to this site over the years!

You should try eating them, they are actually really good.....google carp recipes and you will find tons. you would be really surprised how good they are.

wow, nice finds! What waterfall is that?

Yeah, try the reboot. If that doesn't work, just bring them to the Marshall Lake campout and I will exchange them for two of the brand new Extremes.

I spent three days doing owl surveys in Bonita Creek between the San Carlos Rez line and the gila river. If you haven't been out there, it's an amazing place. It takes a few hrs on rocky roads to get all the way to the north end, but it's a beautiful drive with amazing rock formations and this time of year, it had lots of poppies and other flowers! check out all the poppies way out on that mtn in the background. There were miles and miles of this surrounding us in all directions. We got up to the north end late in the afternoon. With no time to spare we started hiking south along the creek, which was a challenge due to all the flooding caused by the beaver. There is an old homestead near there and I think it may have been for Toppy Johnson who was a cattle rustler that lived in a cave way up on Turtle mtn for a few years before making himself a ranch down in bonita creek. Apparently he lived out there until he died in his 80's. What a tough man he must have been. My dog Julie apparently found some turkeys and flushed them into a tree. If you look at the sycamore in the middle of this pic you can see a few turkeys up high in the tree. I was hoping we would hear a bunch of gobbling in the morning, but no luck. We continued hiking a few miles until dark and then hiked back in the dark listening for owls. It's a challenge finding your way in a beaver swamp with thick vegetation and downed trees everywhere, but I had managed to GPS all the better water crossings so that the navigating was a little easier. Several times we had to walk on top of the beaver dams to get across. Julie loved that idea, but our other dog Sunshine didn't really enjoy that part. While hiking back to camp in the dark my husband spotted this beaver skull. It looked to me like it had grown a lower incisor too long and perhaps couldn't survive with it that way. We also found a lion jaw, pelvis and legbone. The BLM biologist had told us there was a camp spot down by the creek, but when we got there, the beavers had flooded the area and we were left with not enough flat area for a tent. So we just laid out some tarps and slept in the open. the stars were AMAZING!! Falling asleep next to the gurgling creek was nice as well. The next morning we hiked north toward the reservation line and there is a series of cliff dwelling called pueblo devol. These are on BLM land and they had a sign there explaining that the dwellings were probably up to 50 rooms at the height of occupation by anazazi and that the people came south from Point of Pines (on the reservation). Julie loving the beaver ponds: After the morning hike up there we packed up and headed to Midnight Canyon. The road out was lined with poppies....pretty cool! We hiked down Midnight canyon to Bonita Creek and that canyon turns into a really cool slot canyon with some boulders balanced on top of the slot. Once we got down to Bonita Creek we headed north and ended up by a place named after a lady that farmed and ranched down on the creek. The BLM has restored her cabin and named it after her...the Old Lady Gay cabin. Lots of javelina sign, bear sign and we saw a few whitetailed deer as well. We hiked back out in the dark and set up camp and had time for a fire before hitting the sack. Our dogs were exhausted as were we... The next morning we hiked back down midnight canyon and then this time went south along Bonita creek into a tight part of the canyon. Neat area but again difficult to hike due to all the flooding by beavers. We did manage to spot a few bighorn sheep way up high on the cliff. I only saw four (two ewes, a lamb and a young ram) but there may have easily been more that we couldn't see. A greater earless lizard that was too cold to escape from me so I snapped a few pics of his cool colors. It was a fun trip and if anyone is looking for a neat place to go hike and camp, this is a good one. The dogs were completely exhausted on our hike out. Of course they have no moderation and run 5 times as much as we actually hike. But they take advantage of rest time whenever we would stop.

Wow! They really need to catch that bear. Sounds like it should be easy to find that bear....just set up a tent and fall asleep in that campground.....

Great article Jay!! Thanks for sharing it!