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Joe, Yes Dale Howard was a man of his time. I remember one time when he cut his hand quite seriously and then wrapped a hankie around it and continue digging. He eventually had to have seven or eight stitches put in it to pull it back together again. I think all of us who met Dale Howard knew a good...

Joe, Yes Dale Howard was a man of his time. I remember one time when he cut his hand quite seriously and then wrapped a hankie around it and continue digging. He eventually had to have seven or eight stitches put in it to pull it back together again. I think all of us who met Dale Howard knew a good...

Personally I believe bees are the most dangerous organism in the American Southwestern Deserts. Teddy Bear and Chain Cholla can be very dangerous to small children and inexperienced visitors to the desert. I once came up on a hiker that had tripped and fell face first into a Teddy Bear Cholla. He ha...

I might add, spelunking is a dangerous advocation if your not properly trained for it and don't have a good partner. The "Cave of a Thousand Eyes" need a highly trained Spelunker to enter with. The cowboy that showed me the way to the cave basically left me on my own and I am damn lucky to...

Somehiker: There so many people out here that would destroy the beauty of this cavern to profit. The first man to the cave in 1917 tried to profit from the cave material. Then a prospector named Modoc in 1934 chipped off several of the brilliant Calcite crystals and tried to convince friends in Phoe...

Somehiker: There so many people out here that would destroy the beauty of this cavern to profit. The first man to the cave in 1917 tried to profit from the cave material. Then a prospector named Modoc in 1934 chipped off several of the brilliant Calcite crystals and tried to convince friends in Phoe...

This story of the silver bars near the Lewis Claim along SR 88 (Apache Trail) brings back lots of old memories. Like Jim I knew Steve Barrick and Carl Boderick quite well and had visited with them many times over the years. My friends the Martins knew both of the men well also. Like Jim said in a po...

This story of the silver bars near the Lewis Claim along SR 88 (Apache Trail) brings back lots of old memories. Like Jim I knew Steve Barrick and Carl Boderick quite well and had visited with them many times over the years. My friends the Martins knew both of the men well also. Like Jim said in a po...

P.S. I will have to relearn how to post old photographs again one of these days. Check out my Face Book page.

Tom K.

Joe, Yes, County Line Divide (Blow Saddle) was were we would blow the horses and tighten cinches usually. Sometime we stopped at Transmission Gap. Place names in the Superstition Wilderness Area are complicated and complex both. For example I have a canyon on Tortilla Mountain called Crab Canyon bec...