We planned on going jeeping with a group from church on a recent Saturday. It had been sunny and warm all week long but we woke up to rain. We went to the parking lot we were all meeting in (after all no self-respecting Alaskan cancels a trip because of a little rain!) but everybody bailed on us except for Jim and Linda (they now call us they're crazy Alaskan friends). Just a short ways up the trail we started spotting snow falling...
Us ladies staying warm and dry in the jeep...
Kind of strange to see Saguaro's with snow on them!
Or even little cactus.
So much for spring...
mmm, lots more snow as we got further up the mountain...
If you look far down the road you'll see two figures walking towards us. They had been stuck in the truck we later pulled out of the ditch. They said they expected rain but not snow and had been stuck on the road all night after trying to get out. They were cold and hungry - so we fed them and gave them heat packs and gloves...
We got him out of the ditch and then turned around and towed him up the hill. We later saw another car 1/2 way off the road and another stuck - but both were abandoned. Then we ran into the local sheriff who was looking for people reportedly stuck in the snow.
This is Brian and Monkey - we met a few people on the trail who weren't having any trouble and stopped in a spot to visit. Monkey is 1/2 Jack Russell Terrier and 1/2 Australian Shepherd - and surprise surprise he likes to jump! Brian could have stayed there all day long and thrown snowballs and Monkey would have gladly caught them...
Over and over - and then he would come back for more. Sounds like a JRT huh? :)
Snow on the Superstition Mountains - a very rare event...
It was all gone by that evening - Four Peaks had snow for another day or two but then it was gone. Within 2 days it was 85 degrees in the Valley.
Have we mentioned how much we love our Jeep?
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