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Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon - 2 members in 7 triplogs have rated this an average 3 ( 1 to 5 best )
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Dec 12 2017
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74 male
 Joined Feb 12 2002
 Gold Canyon, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Dec 12 2017
AZLOT69 • Triplogs 2,215
Hiking6.00 Miles 800 AEG
Hiking6.00 Miles
800 ft AEG
 no routesno photosets
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Partners none no partners
Good day out on the trail.
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Feb 23 2016
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74 male
 Joined Feb 12 2002
 Gold Canyon, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Feb 23 2016
AZLOT69 • Triplogs 2,215
Hiking6.00 Miles 800 AEG
Hiking6.00 Miles
800 ft AEG
 no routesno photosets
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Partners none no partners
Perfect weather day. Seemed to be some kind of search and rescue mission in the area. Helicopters and fixed wings flying a grid pattern. ????
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Nov 12 2015
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74 male
 Joined Feb 12 2002
 Gold Canyon, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Nov 12 2015
AZLOT69 • Triplogs 2,215
Hiking6.00 Miles 800 AEG
Hiking6.00 Miles
800 ft AEG
 no routesno photosets
Linked   none no linked trail guides
Partners none no partners
Perfect day for exploring with few others around.
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It's best for a man to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
--Mark Twain
 
Oct 29 2015
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63 male
 Joined Dec 20 2010
 Sunnyslope, PHX
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Oct 29 2015
kingsnake • Triplogs 894
Hiking12.06 Miles 1,271 AEG
Hiking12.06 Miles   5 Hrs   28 Mns   2.21 mph
1,271 ft AEG
 
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Dinner with my Dad tonight, and did not think I could get a decent hike in up north, and still make it back in time. (Let alone shower ...) So, since I had to drop my wife off at the airport at 0500, I figured I would do a hike somewhere in that general direction. I used Route Manager's "Mapped Areas" In View: All, and this is what caught my eye.

On my way east on US 60, I figured I would stop at the Waffle House in Apache Junction. The purpose was three fold: Hope for the rain to end (thunder woke me up at 0220), wait for light, and ... HASH BROWNS!!! :y:

I missed the exit. :doh:

Oh well. I continued on. I got to the trailhead at the base of Roblas Butte, no problem. FR 357 is a good road. FR 172 and FR 252 are a bit bumpy in spots, but probably still car drivable if you take your time.

It was still pitch black when I started. I had a head lamp, which I bought for mine exploring, but it took me some time to find my way down the tangled 30 ft. bluff into the Hewitt Canyon wash bed. I booked up FR 252 to Roblas Canyon, as it began getting light.

Roblas Well had two spring boxes, three tanks, and a non-functional windmill (with solar panels). Despite taking my time, and a bit of wandering, I did not see any signs of mining in Roblas Canyon, other than a few claim poles/signs, but it has some nice rock formations and saguaro. Indeed, the whole loop is rich with beautiful saguaro. Highly recommended for the saguaro alone! :)

There is much evidence of OHV and shooting activity through out the area, but particularly along the FRs.

The photoset can be summed up in four words: Roblas Butte and saguaros. :D

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Hike Video: https://youtu.be/bL ... ZFpk
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 Flora [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Saguaro
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 Culture [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Balloon  Corral  Grave - Unidentified  HAZ - Selfie  Mine Shaft  Windmill
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 Named place [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Bomboy Mine  Picketpost Mountain  Roblas Butte  Roblas Canyon  Roblas Well
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[ checklist ]  Moon  Rainbow

dry Roblas Well Dry Dry
All five water retention contraptions were bone dry. Windmill appears non-functional.
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Mar 13 2012
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46 male
 Joined Oct 19 2010
 Mesa, AZ
Roblas ButteGlobe, AZ
Roblas Butte
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Mar 13 2012
Charger55 • Triplogs 573
Hiking3.00 Miles 810 AEG
Hiking3.00 Miles   3 Hrs      1.00 mph
810 ft AEG
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1st trip
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With gas at $4/gallon I think I'll be sticking close to home this spring. So I took one last trip to the Queen Valley/Superior area to finish up the last hike on my winter to-do list.

I wanted to do this one when I did Elephant Arch a couple of weeks ago but didn't have the time. It's a short but tough bushwhack up the western drainage. The GPS lists this as 0.6 miles but it took me 1hr 15min to reach the summit. The summit register is a small mason jar with a memo pad and some loose papers going back to 1996. SSK44 appears to be a semi-frequent visitor to the to the top, although before I signed in no one had been there since January 2011. I descended the gentler eastern drainage. So this is where all the wildflowers are hiding this year! All the colors of spring were well represented; yellow, purple, white and red. Sorry, I don't do well with flower photos. The drainage ends at the windmill and cottonwood trees in Roblas Canyon. I followed that south to the jeep road, made a side trip to the Bomboy Mining District and then retraced the jeep road back to my car parked near the corral at Hewitt Canyon Road.
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"I've driven across deserts, driven by the irony, that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
- Frank Turner "The Road"
 
Oct 21 2011
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74 male
 Joined Feb 12 2002
 Gold Canyon, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
4x4 Trip avatar Oct 21 2011
AZLOT69 • Triplogs 2,215
4x4 Trip22.00 Miles
4x4 Trip22.00 Miles   4 Hrs      5.50 mph
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Partners none no partners
Exploring the area.
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Mar 25 2011
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 Guides 177
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74 male
 Joined Feb 12 2002
 Gold Canyon, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas CanyonGlobe, AZ
Bomboy Mine & Roblas Canyon
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Mar 25 2011
AZLOT69 • Triplogs 2,215
Hiking6.00 Miles 800 AEG
Hiking6.00 Miles   3 Hrs      2.00 mph
800 ft AEG
 no routesno photosets
Linked   none no linked trail guides
Partners none no partners
Fun day hike with family from out of town.
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It's best for a man to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
--Mark Twain
 
average hiking speed 1.74 mph

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