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08-30-2019, 09:33 AM #1Registered User
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Places you should go within an 8hr drive of Phoenix
In anticipation of being socked in with work in PHX for the next two months, trying to seize this weekend to take a road trip. Leaving tonight, back Monday night. Also, if I can find somewhere with decent fishing I'm taking the fly rods.. been too long
Where would you go within an 8hr-ish radius?
Some places on the short list:
Telluride (been there once in the winter, it was pretty cool)
Death Valley - probably too hot
Sequoia NF - a bit outside the radius but don't know when the next time I'd go would be
San Diego - don't know much about it, some people seem to like it. others not so much
Zion NP - been once, only for half a day. probably a gong show this weekend
Taos?
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08-30-2019, 09:44 AM #2
Could you get up onto the green river in 8 hours? That would satisfy the fishing component
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08-30-2019, 09:50 AM #3
Puerto Penasco
Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.
Patterson Hood of the DBT's
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08-30-2019, 09:52 AM #4
Grand Canyon
Durango (fish and bike).
Sedona
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08-30-2019, 10:09 AM #5
Owens Valey/Lone Pine/Bishop - fish, hike, hot springs, ancient bristlecones
Sequoia NP - access is from the SJ valley and is well outside of your radius, but you can access from the east, just not very far into it without crossing Whitney and friends.
Joshua Tree NP
Storm Area 51 with the Bros?I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.
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08-30-2019, 10:14 AM #6
Who doesn’t like San Diego?
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08-30-2019, 10:26 AM #7
Gila wilderness
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08-30-2019, 10:59 AM #8
I assume you already know all these places and they don't sound like what you're looking for but for the benefit of a non-local who might come across this thread, explore the desert--Sonoran Desert NM, Canyon de Chelly, Betatakin and Keet Seel in the Navajo NM, the BLM canyon between Phoenix and Tucson whose name I can't remember, Syacamore Canyon down near the border. Organ Pipes NM. Monument Valley.
I like the Puerto Penasco suggestion although it's been 30 years since we've been there.
About 9 hours will get you into Bishop from where you can day hike into the east side of the Sierra opposite Sequoia NP. Should be good fishing. Or Big Pine a little closer to the south. Further south--Independence, Lone Pine--the trailheads tend to be either too low in elevation or in the restricted Whitney Zone (need restricted permit even for day hiking.)
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08-30-2019, 11:43 AM #9Registered User
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08-30-2019, 12:21 PM #10
Salt River Canyon
4 Corners
Moab=7hr20min
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08-30-2019, 02:26 PM #11
I can't believe I missed it: TJ for a donkey show. And the old disappearing kidneys trick.
I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.
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08-30-2019, 02:53 PM #12
How serious are you about fly fishing?
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-30-2019, 03:00 PM #13
West canyon narrows and slot
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08-30-2019, 03:07 PM #14
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08-30-2019, 04:04 PM #15Funky But Chic
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The airport.
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08-30-2019, 04:14 PM #16
Applebee’s for their 2 for $20 special. All you can eat Riblets too.
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08-30-2019, 04:37 PM #17
Scottsdale
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08-30-2019, 04:39 PM #18
Riblets.
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08-30-2019, 05:18 PM #19Registered User
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08-30-2019, 05:19 PM #20Registered User
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Thinking Durango is getting the nod
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08-30-2019, 05:31 PM #21Registered User
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Research fishing up on the mogollon rim outside of Payson, much closer and from my understanding some fine fishing.
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08-30-2019, 05:34 PM #22
Then hit the San Juan or the Dolores, both easy off the road style rivers.
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I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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08-30-2019, 05:48 PM #23
Pinetop/Show Low
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I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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08-30-2019, 11:45 PM #24Registered User
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Bryce Canyon
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