Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (La Posa South LTVA, Quartzsite, AZ)

We're going on one of our favourite quad rides today...Diablo Pass. We all met at Earl's and hit the trail shortly after 10:00. There were 4 machines today...Earl (no Allison today) leading, Bob, Sue in her side-by-side with Vince's wife, Kim as passenger, Vince, Steve and me.

If you're not a fan of desert scenery and ATVing you may want to skip this blog. We have many friends from ATVBC and the Cowichan Valley ATV Club that enjoy seeing our rides :)  Steve took lots of pictures from his GoPro video.

It was a beautiful sunny day!  Riding Tyson Wash and crossing under I-10...

 This estate looks totally out of place in a place like Quartzsite...

The start of Diablo Pass...

 In the distance you can see the trail heading up the pass...

Earl is already on top waiting for the rest of us to arrive...

 It's steeper than it looks...

On top of Diablo Pass...

Looking back from where we came...

Time to continue through the pass...

We're headed for that trail on the hill on the left...

 Up we go!

Dome Basin Mine on the left...

Time for lunch...the trail we came up below...

 One of several mines here...

Time to head back...

Bob climbing the hill while Dianne's taken another route on his right

Steve climbing the hill too!

 This area coming up gets pretty rugged...

 Everyone made it with no problems...

We've seen sheep in this pass before but not today...

 Earl is on top of the hill just to the right of my mirror...

This is a fun valley to ride through...

I'm at the bottom...

 Just about at the top...

 Looking back...

 Bob heading down the next hill...

 Looking back...looks much steeper now...

We were home just after 3:00...a fabulous ride and day!

Once we had cleaned up and put our stuff away, we decided to put the awning out and the sunscreen up...fingers crossed that this warmth is here to stay!

And a spectacular sunset this evening...