Camp Bouse revisited

Now that we'd been on the guided tour and had the lay of the land we decided to go back out to Camp Bouse on our own and look around a bit.  I decided that we'd take a bit different route though.  Unfortunately it turned out one of the road sections shown on the map was closed so we wound up doing a little cross country on a quad trail.  Was still interesting, but it did eat quite a bit into the time we were going to spend at the camp.

Just out of Utting, we followed an old irrigation ditch from a hayfield/feedlot.  

And past an emergency spillway for the Central Arizona Canal.  

I think this old man was trying to point us the right direction... but the message eluded me.  

We had a little cross country trip.  

Kinda reminds me of a jack-o-lantern a couple days after Oct. 31st.  

Finally we made it to the camp.  

We did a quick tour of the shooting range, 

found the mine shaft behind the range, 

and the camp's potable water cistern (now known as Butler Well - the steel tank is the reservoir for a cattle water on the far right).  

That was all for this trip. though.