Highlight Photos
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White Mountains Grassland View -
White Mountain Grasslands Pond -
Sipe Wildlife Area View -
Pottery Shards at the Sipe Pueblo -
Mushroom Foray -
View from Thompson Trail -
On the Land of the Pioneers trail -
Arab Cabin…maybe -
Hidden Lobster Mushroom -
Red-Faced Warbler -
Los Burros Trail
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After our Europe trip we haven’t done any trip and even though we have another trip to Canada planned we cannot skip the Mushroom festival if we are in Arizona. So we book an AirBnB and a mushroom foray and soon are on our way north. During the three days spend up north we explore beautiful grasslands, magnificent forests with quiet creeks snaking through them while finding caches, mushrooms, special birds and mammals, even a bobcat cub!
To learn more click on the Links below or Markers on the map above to go directly to a specific part of our trip and follow our visit through high-altitude Arizona.
- Staying at the Ostrich Farm House in Eager
We stay three nights in Eager at a former ostrich farming place to explore the area and attend the mushroom festival - A hike through the White Mountains Grasslands Wildlife Area
We start the day with something rare, a new area for us to explore in Arizona, the White Mountain Grasslands, a surprisingly beautiful and desolate landscape - Find caches and mushrooms in the Greens Peak area
In the afternoon we explore the area around Greens Peak for mushrooms and caches until the rain catches us and forces us back to Eager - Short visit to Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area
Before our mushroom outing we visit the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area seeing lots of birds and elks as well as a small Indian ruin - Looking for Mushrooms at the Lightning Ridge Trailhead
The first of the foray is near the Lightning Ridge Trailhead finding lobster mushrooms and a few other interesting species - Looking for mushrooms near Thompson Trail
We spend the hour until the obligatory rainfall near and on the Thompson trail looking for mushrooms both with the foray and on our own - Short Loop in the Land of the Pioneers trail system
Today we want to do maintenance on the first cache we placed on the beautiful Land of the Pioneers trail and enjoy the secluded area - Getting rained on on the Los Burros Trail
Last hike of the trip is on the Los Burros Trail where we use a new trail to access an old cache we placed years ago while avoiding the rain