We went over to the California side of the Colorado River for a hike. Yuma is right on the Arizona - California border with the Colorado River as the divide. The mountain range closest to Yuma on the California is the Cargo Muchachos. This mountain range had lots of gold, silver and kyanite mines in it. There are still some active claims although much smaller than back in the days of large operations. So there is plenty of federal land that is available for recreation. We've heard of guys who go out here with their metal detectors and find lots of small pieces of gold. We took our metal detector out there and did quite a bit of hiking around but didn't find anything worthwhile.
Its very nice to be able to go for a hike and its in the 70's. When we got here in October it was in the high 90's and now its staying in the 70's. I wish we would have had a longer stretch of 80 degrees but its still better than what most of the country is experiencing. We've had two windy days so far which is a far cry from last winter in Texas where it was windy everyday.
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