In September of 2004, my friend Steve and I went for a drive through the mountains of Eastern Arizona for a weekend of cooler weather and great scenery. All pics below are shown in approximate chronological order as I took them. All are actual photos from the trips, and the thumbnails lead to "full" size (800 or so pixels max in one direction) versions.
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Saturday, September 4 Morenci, AZ Open Pit Copper Mine |
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24mm wide-angle view The trucks are barely visible! |
200mm closeup |
crop of 200mm closeup |
Saturday, September 4 Eagar/Springerville & Vicinity |
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Alpine is just Southeast of Eagar/Springerville and offered a quick 15-mile detour into New Mexico for a spot to eat lunch alongside the road. The on and off rain made for a beautiful, largely traffic-free drive from Morenci up to Alpine, through misty/foggy green forest landscape, silently gliding over the damp pavement. A beautiful drive, worth all the time it takes getting there (but definitely not a day trip from Phoenix).
Alpine in the rain |
New Mexico |
Eagar and Springerville aren't much in the way of big cities, but their location is great. Cool temperatures, rolling green mountains, and a wonderful sunset made for a nice destination after a 450+ mile day in the car. The sunset photos were taken West of town on the road to Hon-Dah and Pinetop. Even though it was Labor Day and every hotel was booked to capacity, we saw few other people. Everyone was on the lakes, boating, fishing, etc., while we stuck to the out-of-the-way places like the drive from Clifton / Morenci and Sunday's drive through the most empty, barren landscape up towards Holbrook and the Petrified Forest.
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