Day 2

We ran a trail called Blue Monster. To get to the trail head we headed out the side roads from Cottonwood, which had their fair share of smooth faster paced parts, and slower rockier sections. Once we got to the trailhead, the first half of the trail was about as smooth as you’d want a dirt road to be. Pat mentioned there was an abandoned mine up one of the side trails, the mine was called Conger Mine, when he went there 12 years ago all the mining equipment was still there. We were running ahead of schedule so we headed up there to see if the equipment was still there or not. The road to the mine was pretty rough, but it was a fun slow crawl to get up there. Unfortunately no mining equipment was left, but the mine shaft, with a running stream inside was interesting to check out. After the mine we continued down Blue Monster, the last third of the trail was fairly rough, but it was a fun slower crawl through the mountains. After we got done with Blue Monster we headed up towards Cherry to eat lunch at Powell Springs campground.