Salt River and Suguaro Lake ride

We really  had  fun on this ride with Kelly  Brooke  Allan, Ron Stolp and  Alan Gillman. /we  did  a bit  of training with our  mules during  a  fun follow the  leader game  in one  of the washes. The  scenery  along the Salt  River  was  breaktaking as well.

Although it got a little  edgy  ledgy along the  river , it  was  nothing like we  were  about to encounter.

Just when you come out  of  this  ledgy  part, you end  up on a  beach at the  bottom of  a wash. We traveled up this wash to the  trail that would  take us to Suguaro Lake.

We stopped  along the way to have  lunch at something that resembled  an old  mine  but we weren't sure  if it  might have  been a  well too.

See how the rock are stacked at the  top behind  Alan? each one  is over 100 lbs. and  the  walls  are  over 3 feet thick.

The trail got tougher , the higher we ascended but, it was totally worth every step because the scenery was spectacular!. It was  like  riding  through a very expensively landscaped desert  scene!

Once  we got to the  top we caught  views  of  Suguaro Lake!

The trail down to the lake was probably the  hardest pert of the  entire trail. It  is  very steep with deep ravines carved in the  rock trail from years of rain and erosion.