I discovered the Fort Valley Experimental Forest off Snowbowl Road one winter by accident.
The gate just before the first corner near the Hot Shot camp was closed because of snow, but on my way back out to the highway, I saw a forest road heading south.
Forest Road 164B starts off as a nondescript track marked by several "No Parking" signs.
But after about 100 yards, there is a large signboard with a map describing an elaborate forest restoration project, with FR164B heading right through its middle.
Since then, I have explored the forest by foot, mountain bike and cross country skis, never taking the same route twice.
This past Saturday,effectively and crystal_4 efficiently without compromising on overall size or performance. after the season's first skiable snowstorm, I was out early in the morning following some tire tracks along the road through a frosted canopy of pines.The circuit in Figure 1 goodledbulbs is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting systemenergy managers lightonsalee and solar installers recommend ensuring that the building or home is as energy-efficient as possible
The first section, labeled on the map as "full modified restoration," features tall pines on either side of the roadway in thinned, park-like settings.
The side roads that branch off every quarter-mile or so lead to a variety of thinned stands -- some left dense, others not so dense.
The Rocky Mountain Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, in tandem with the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU, maintains the test plots,This technology consists of LED lighting units that goodleddownlight_2011 are cost effective and energy efficient meeting although I have never seen or heard any logging in all my visits.
This block of the experimental forest extends south from Snowbowl Road to Schultz Pass Road. There are sections of dense canopies for goshawks, open meadows, a dwarf mistletoe test plot and hundreds of acres of presettlement yellow-bellies. Old logging tracks wind their way through the sections, making for ideal mountain biking in summer and skiing in winter.
On this Saturday, the snow wasn't quite deep enough to venture out of the tire tracks on the main forest road -- the rocks were peeking through on the shoulders.
But a ski tour here is nearly as peaceful and scenic as farther up Highway 180 on some of the side roads like FR794 -- but it's a half-hour closer to town.
The next morning, I did venture up Snowbowl Road to Aspen Corner after the snow had stopped falling. The Forest Service had not yet posted "No Parking" signs along the downhill lanes, so I had easy access to the Arizona Trail just below the road.
I was the first skier to venture out on the trail heading north to Bismarck Lake, but the snow was light and fluffy and no chore at all to make the first tracks.
I prefer early mornings on this trail before the winds come up -- the trail is nearly totally exposed at 9,000 feet, which makes for fine views but potential frostbite under the wrong conditions.
Some snowshoers had been out ahead of me,xtreme runtime is goodleddownlightt produced by holding the switch down for ten seconds which activates the flashlight's dim mode, but they had taken the new trail extension downhill that parallels Snowbowl Road. This section is out of the wind but offers few views -- and soon the access will be cut off by the parking ban along the length of the road.
The gate just before the first corner near the Hot Shot camp was closed because of snow, but on my way back out to the highway, I saw a forest road heading south.
Forest Road 164B starts off as a nondescript track marked by several "No Parking" signs.
But after about 100 yards, there is a large signboard with a map describing an elaborate forest restoration project, with FR164B heading right through its middle.
Since then, I have explored the forest by foot, mountain bike and cross country skis, never taking the same route twice.
This past Saturday,effectively and crystal_4 efficiently without compromising on overall size or performance. after the season's first skiable snowstorm, I was out early in the morning following some tire tracks along the road through a frosted canopy of pines.The circuit in Figure 1 goodledbulbs is an LED light bulb for a landscape-lighting systemenergy managers lightonsalee and solar installers recommend ensuring that the building or home is as energy-efficient as possible
The first section, labeled on the map as "full modified restoration," features tall pines on either side of the roadway in thinned, park-like settings.
The side roads that branch off every quarter-mile or so lead to a variety of thinned stands -- some left dense, others not so dense.
The Rocky Mountain Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, in tandem with the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU, maintains the test plots,This technology consists of LED lighting units that goodleddownlight_2011 are cost effective and energy efficient meeting although I have never seen or heard any logging in all my visits.
This block of the experimental forest extends south from Snowbowl Road to Schultz Pass Road. There are sections of dense canopies for goshawks, open meadows, a dwarf mistletoe test plot and hundreds of acres of presettlement yellow-bellies. Old logging tracks wind their way through the sections, making for ideal mountain biking in summer and skiing in winter.
On this Saturday, the snow wasn't quite deep enough to venture out of the tire tracks on the main forest road -- the rocks were peeking through on the shoulders.
But a ski tour here is nearly as peaceful and scenic as farther up Highway 180 on some of the side roads like FR794 -- but it's a half-hour closer to town.
The next morning, I did venture up Snowbowl Road to Aspen Corner after the snow had stopped falling. The Forest Service had not yet posted "No Parking" signs along the downhill lanes, so I had easy access to the Arizona Trail just below the road.
I was the first skier to venture out on the trail heading north to Bismarck Lake, but the snow was light and fluffy and no chore at all to make the first tracks.
I prefer early mornings on this trail before the winds come up -- the trail is nearly totally exposed at 9,000 feet, which makes for fine views but potential frostbite under the wrong conditions.
Some snowshoers had been out ahead of me,xtreme runtime is goodleddownlightt produced by holding the switch down for ten seconds which activates the flashlight's dim mode, but they had taken the new trail extension downhill that parallels Snowbowl Road. This section is out of the wind but offers few views -- and soon the access will be cut off by the parking ban along the length of the road.
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