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MikeInFHAZ
Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1401 Location: location location
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Posted: 9/27/2006, 5:35 pm Post subject: any apples at Reavis this year? |
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I dont recall seeing many apples last year at Reavis, I guess they are bi-annual? So is this the year we may be seeing a healthy crop? Even though the trees are looking quite haggard these days the apples keep coming up in late summer.
Anybody been out there let us know! _________________ http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albwb18/BRIDGE.sized.jpg
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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 9/27/2006, 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm, I thought George and Tommy were just there. |
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DesertRoux
Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 397 Location: Scottsdale
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Posted: 9/27/2006, 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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We should just do an incognito (sp?) pruning hike to get them healthy. They just need some love. And water. _________________ Good people... drink good beer.
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 3:19 am Post subject: |
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DesertRoux wrote: |
We should just do an incognito (sp?) pruning hike to get them healthy. They just need some love. And water. |
Amen to that. A few hours with a pruning pole would do wonders up there. That and a few hundred pounds of fertilizer. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though. |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 6:01 am Post subject: |
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With all the cowboy traffic that place gets when the apples are ready, you'd think they could haul some stuff in there once in a while to better their chances. But nooo, they're happier hauling in couches, refrigerators, regulation Army tents, and crap.
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though.
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Do all that work, just to have the cowboys come in the next year and take out mule/horse trains worth of apples out. I've heard they really clean that place out sometimes. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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You want apples? Come to Round Valley (Eagar/Springerville)! There are hundreds and hundreds of apple trees in everyone's yard (including mine) with apples going to waste. You can pick them by the sidewalk, and everywhere in town! You can knock on people's doors for permission to pick--they'll say "take all you want!" It was a bumper year for apples here! People also have yards full of big pumpkins, etc. |
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desertgirl
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Davis2001R6 wrote: |
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Have a GHOTM there, get 20 people to each carry 10 lbs. of fertilizer, plus the pruning tools. I suspect you really would have to be a bit secretive about it, though.
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Do all that work, just to have the cowboys come in the next year and take out mule/horse trains worth of apples out. I've heard they really clean that place out sometimes. |
Do we have any mules we could recruit ? Why not be the "cowboys"! _________________ Photos: http://www.pbase.com/desertgirl/galleries
Life is but a dream ...there is no end to what you can dream! |
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Hnak
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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desertgirl wrote: |
Do we have any mules we could recruit ? Why not be the "cowboys"! |
Don't you be looking that way at me... _________________ The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. —EDWARD ABBEY |
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MikeInFHAZ
Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1401 Location: location location
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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HIG wrote: |
But nooo, they're happier hauling in couches, refrigerators, regulation Army tents, and crap.
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aint that the truth. I hear there are also apple trees up at some old ranch in the Sierra Ancha. Petersen ranch to be exact. Anyone been? _________________ http://www.arizonahikers.com/board/albums/albwb18/BRIDGE.sized.jpg
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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I'm told the Forest Service objects to maintaining the apple trees, they are not native or compatible with Wilderness characteristics, so you are right, being a bit secretive would be important. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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When was the last time you saw a Forest Service person at the ranch? I've seen them doing maintenance on the trail, but never as far as the ranch.
I'll be heading out there in a couple of weeks. I'll report back with some pics, unless anyone is going sooner. |
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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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We'd be there the end of october _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 9/28/2006, 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Good point on FS in the field, just doesn't happen much, especially on weekends. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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