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.
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Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.