Rubbing it in a little!

I don't mind the cold weather at all, except for the damn snow and rain. but that Arizona heat.....ugh. I have family near Show Low in Arizona. I was out there during the summer in 2004 visiting and it was just brutal...110-120 degree days.

btw, I absolutely love Flagstaff. That's probably my favorite place I've visited within the United States thus far.

Showlow used to be where arizonans went to fish. Then the New Age woo woos decided it was a power spot and started selling tshirts dyed brown from the local soil along with crystals and vision quests led by plastic indians. It CAN get cold. In a forgotten incident two indian boys were arrested for vagrancy, locked up in the local jail and froze to death overnight sleeping on concrete floors with no blankets. I remember whn my saddlemaker got upset on the phone. They actually installed a SECOND set of lights at an intersection.
come summer you see endless horsetrailers moving stock up to Flagstaff to escape the heat. I was able to go down Slide Rock before it was closed due to human bacterial levels.

Andrew, the older I get the more I see the attraction to a cool place for the summer and a warm place for the winter. That way I can indulge my sport of choice year round. But I just don't see me being a snowbird.

Showlow used to be where arizonans went to fish. Then the New Age woo woos decided it was a power spot and started selling tshirts dyed brown from the local soil along with crystals and vision quests led by plastic indians. It CAN get cold. In a forgotten incident two indian boys were arrested for vagrancy, locked up in the local jail and froze to death overnight sleeping on concrete floors with no blankets. I remember whn my saddlemaker got upset on the phone. They actually installed a SECOND set of lights at an intersection.
come summer you see endless horsetrailers moving stock up to Flagstaff to escape the heat. I was able to go down Slide Rock before it was closed due to human bacterial levels.

my family lives in Concho..their tiny town has dirt roads, no street lights and no street signs, I don't believe. oh, any everyone lives in trailers. tiny, tiny town. even their church is in a trailer..

I rode through it once on a mule, way overarmed with a 95 Winchester in .30 Krag with 220 grain cupro nickle solids and a Remington two shot .41 in case any UFOs showed up. It's a hoodoo land and I ignored the old BS about real cowboys not carrying water. I had two of those old desert water bags, two canteens, two military pocket survival flasks and drank before leaving until I couldn't drink another drop. My mount drank both bags from my hat, I emptied both canteens and one flask by the time we rode back in.