It's been a couple of months since the last entry, not that HIlda and I haven't been shooting anything, we've been shooting everything in sight. This past weekend we joined the Casa Grande 4 Wheelers on a trip into the Mineral Mountains over a trail leading to the Ajax Mine. Did I say trail? Actually, it's a creek bed filled with rocks and boulders, some as large or larger than my Jeep. At the end of the "trail" are two abandoned mines, the "Ajax" and "Orphan Boy". I haven't been able to discover what was being mined, but apparently whatever it was played out very quickly and the mines were abandoned.
Driving back from the mines, our group took an upper trail which was significantly easier than the creek bed, and spied the more adventurous members of the group tackling the extreme rocks in the upper Ajax trail. Over looking the creek, on the western wall of the canyon, is the remnants of the original trail used by the miners to get back to the Ajax. Using a 75mm lens, I captured a pretty good panorama of the old trail, which you'll see in the "Landscapes" gallery.
Hilda had another dispute with a Cholla cactus and several hundred burs, but I managed to pull all the cactus quills and cut out the burs. By the time we got home, Hilda crashed for the night, completely exhausted from all the day's activity.