Wildflower Watch

Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

They're here! They're here!!! Multi

I've got Poppies along the US60 starting around Signal Butte all the way out to Gold Canyon!! Spinning on my head

Where else are they bloom'in?

Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

so I found a few flowers today

jdahling · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 233 Location: East Valley

Yeah - seems apropos for the first few days of spring to have the flowers pop! I noticed them yesterday while running (and again while driving home!)
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Hikngrl · Posted: 3/2/2008, 5:47 pm Post subject:

I got out yeaterday and took about a million pictures of the same such flowers! It was beautiful out there! Actually much prettier on the way out of the Supes than on the way in as when we hiked in it was still cool and on the way out it had warmed up and much more was open! I loved it! Hope they will still be around on the 15th as Todd and I are hoping to get out then also! Agree

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Nighthiker · Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714

Quite a first bloom. Was up along the Apache Trail near milepost 205.5 was quite a display along the west side of the road.

Hikngrl · Posted: 3/2/2008, 6:33 pm Post subject:

Oops! Sorry, forgot to say I was on the Boulder Canyon trail out of the Canyon Lake trail head.
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Trishness · Posted: 3/2/2008, 6:51 pm Post subject:

We were out at Salome Jug and that area this weekend and some of the hills are LOADED with them.....Lupines too. Still snow in the upper reaches of Four Peaks which made for some terrific pictures.

If you head out to this area in the next week, check on access to A+Cross Road (FR 60) off 188 which was limited this weekend due to heavy flooding. We crossed at Bar-X where the wash was running about a foot+ deep in some sections. My high clearance 2WD made it across but some of the other crossings are over 3 feet deep and impassable.

Mr. Green

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Sande J · Posted: 3/2/2008, 7:39 pm Post subject:

IGO · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas

I'm riding out to Death Valley with the motorcycle club next week end. Reports are that it is on out there already.
Oh, wonderful colors Suz. The new camera?
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desertgirl · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ

More to come : http://www.arizonahikers.com/forum/modules.php?set_albumName=albvn94&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php
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Suz · Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186

WOW! OUTSTANDING!! Best I've seen yet. Nice work Missy!

Look who I recognized reporting here
http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/az.html

azbackpackr · Posted: 3/16/2008, 6:38 pm Post subject:

Gorgeous! I'm hoping next week on the upper Salt it will look like that! I think it will, especially once we boat on down to the elevation where the saguaros begin to be seen. I have seen pretty good flowers there on previous boating trips. I won't have the chance to go down to the desert again until late April, and by then it will be over with.

IGO · Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas

Oh Lady, how absolutely wonderful. And look how green the slopes are. I hope we are right behind ya'll. The math says we are.
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Digital Sherpa · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 66 Location: Mesa, AZ

Ambika,

Very nice...great job working those awesome clouds into the shot.

Here's a few images I snagged out near Canyon Lake.