Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV
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Awaking to snow at White Spar Family Campground, Prescott AZ, March 16, 2008
Spring snow and rain in Arizona
This isn't the weather I traveled so far for this winter. I spent much of the day in and out of rain and, at the higher elevations near Prescott, snow, and temperatures colder than I really expected to find out here in the southwest. I finally left behind the families parked on the roadside having snowball fights about 50 miles east of Hoover Dam.
Night camp
Site 99 - Canyon Trail RV Park, Boulder City NV
- I don't remember if Verizon cell and EVDO service are available here but I assume so.
- Find other references to Canyon Trail RV Park
- Go to the Canyon Trail RV Park website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Check the weather
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."