Scottsdale Old Town - Regroup to Roosevelt Dam & Apache Trail

 

Thursday morning awoke at my Mesa Airbnb, and after visiting with a Minnesota friend Marilyn of Gary Engler's for a hearty breakfast at Mesa's Crackers on Greenfield, we headed west into Scottsdale to check our our meeting venue, Saguaro Hotel, on the Old Town Pedestrian Mall.

Our Carleton Class of 1969, 50th Reunion Volunteer Committee is meeting with Sarah Blaisdell Forster, who is coordinating our "Milestone" 50th Reunion. 

 

Helen Scott (on Old Maud) with Winfield Scott, the founders of Scottsdale memorialize in statue in front of the Old School Museum on the pedistrian mall not far from the Sagauro Hotel.  We went inside as recommended by the reception staff, and then met the head of the parking staff, and found a place to park for the event with a dash board slip for parking.  Found a great Coffee and Bike Coffee place under his direction called REGROUP.  we did regroup, with the help of a man from Wisconsin and South Africa!  

  

Scott display in the School House Museum -----nearby met folks around a video presentation on the water and power, that the white settlers envisioned, and Teddy Roosevelt, helped to politically carry out. Check out the Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Dam

 Tonto Basin with a mountain peak, Mazatzal Range, Mt Ord? with snow on AZ Hwy, 188 with Saguaro in front.  Gray day, with breaks in clouds.

 The arc bridge at the  Lake Roosevelt side of the dam that Hwy 188 crosses, before we turned right onto the Apache Trails, much of which we found is gravel and a lot of washboarding and shaking along the way.

 
Roosevelt Dam from the Lake Side Visitors overlook on a cloudy day.  Lots of Canadians here on 4 wheelers interestingly.  

 Apache trail side of the Roosevelt Dam ---just an overlook where I met some folks from Holland Michigan we talked about our Nederlander ancestors.

 View along the Apache trail down from the dam on the way to Apache Junction then to Mesa.

Another of the of the waters of other dams on the Salt seen from the Apache Trail on a cloudy day in January.

 Gray rental pony gathering some dust on the washboard road that is the Apache Trail! 

 Sign along the trail most of the distance is unpaved.  :-) http://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/apache_trail/

 Cloudy view of the trail and slow curves.

Some blue sky and sun later in the day, down the road a piece.