We were over on the California side of the Colorado for our latest adventures. We went jeeping with a friend from our park. We first went to an area where he had found a gold nugget stuck to some quartz. No such luck for us. We then went to see the American Girl mine area. They mined cyanite here which is tiny clear crystals that are needed in the processing of iron ore.
We hiked over in this same area in the Picacho Recreation area. We hiked up No Name Wash and saw these huge birds nests. They have to be for some kind of large hawk or something else equally large. We also took a detour after our hike and went to "Graffitti Hills" Out in the middle of the desert there are hundreds of names spelled out in rock. People have raked the area clean and then spelled out their names, etc with the raked up rocks. We drove at least a mile and there were names covering the desert on both sides of the road. It is amazing -- someone said they had seen one that was there since the 50's. I don't know when it really started.
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