Friday, March 14, 2008 - Clear Creek Campground east of Camp Verde AZ

Camped at Site 9, Clear Creek Campground, Clear Creek AZ, March 14, 2008

Map showing the location of Clear Creek Campground within the Coconino National Forest

I borrowed a link to this map as an easy way to show where I am within Coconino National Forest. Also there's a pin on my Google Map of this trip - labeled March 14, 2008.

Dispersed camping guidelines

Here is a quote from the Dispersed Camping guidelines for Coconino National Forest. Go read the whole page.

Camping-on-your-own Guidelines

THE FOREST BELONGS TO EVERYONE... however, there are some firm guidelines we must all follow out of respect for everyone who owns the Forest, human and animal. You may camp most anywhere on the Coconino National Forest (unless otherwise posted) according to the following guidelines:

Generally, there is a 14-DAY PER MONTH STAY LIMIT (14 days in a 30-day period) on the Coconino National Forest. Please note that there are some exceptions where the limit is less than fourteen days. Establishing residency is against federal regulation.
No camping or campfires on the forest within city limits.
Do not camp on private property unless you have the owner's permission.
No camping within one-fourth mile of a wildlife watering tank/hole. (State Law)
Camp at least one mile from a pay (designated) campground or established (developed) recreation area, or as posted.
Please do not camp in or drive through open meadowland due to the scarring effect it causes.
Down and dead firewood may be gathered around your camping area for use at your campsite but it is illegal to load wood in a vehicle to take out of the Forest without a special permit. (You may not cut standing trees nor can you cut limbs off of standing trees.)
Campfires can cause lasting impacts to the backcountry.
- Use a lightweight stove for cooking and enjoy a candle lantern for light.
- Where fires are permitted, use established fire rings, fire pans, or mound fires.
- Keep fires small. Only use sticks from the ground that can be broken by hand.
- Burn all wood and coals to ash, put out campfires completely, then scatter cool ashes.
Camp 200 feet from the main roadway, 20 feet from forest road, behind the county or state right-of-way fence.
Always use the pack-in/pack-out method for the disposal of litter to keep your Forest clean.
Please use a digging tool to bury all human and pet waste at least 6 to 7 inches deep.
Pets are welcome in most areas but must be kept leashed at all times.
Always practice "Leave No Trace" Outdoor Ethics.

Night camp

Site 9 - Clear Creek Campground east of Camp Verde AZ

There is ood Verizon cell phone and Broadband service here.
Locate Clear Creek Campground on my Night Camps Map
Check the weather here

Beware of Hypnotic Media

To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be. They have planned a life for you — from the cradle to the grave and beyond — which it would be easy, fatally easy!, to accept. The least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist’s command. Wake up, wake up — before you sign that seven-year contract, buy that house you don’t really want, marry that girl you secretly despise. Don’t reach for the whiskey, that won’t help you. You’ve got to think, to discriminate, to exercise your own free will and judgment. And you must do this, I repeat, without tension, quite rationally and calmly. For if you give way to fury against the hypnotists, if you smash the radio and tear the newspapers to shreds, you will only rush to the other extreme and fossilize into defiant eccentricity.

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