80Th Anniversary Collector's Issue
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80th Anniversary Collector’s Issue Trivia Test: Score a River Trip or a Dude Ranch Adventure april 2005 lost Photogr aphs of ansel adams revealed [THIS PAGE] A lone hiker atop a dramatic Navajo sandstone bluff faces the last rays of the setting sun in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Grand Canyon Wilderness. RALPH LEE HOPKINS {departments} National Park [FRONT COVER] A major contributor Kolb Arch to Arizona Highways throughout 2 LETTERS & E-MAIL APRIL 2005 the 1940s and ’50s, legendary 3 ALL WHO WANDER Munds Road photographer Ansel Adams PRESCOTT shared a special relationship 4 TAKING THE OFF-RAMP with the magazine and its editor, Welcome to Our Anniversary Issue Explore Arizona oddities, 80 YEARS OLD AND COUNTING Raymond Carlson. Our cover PHOENIX photograph, Adams’ Organ Pipe attractions and pleasures. Painted Rocks To celebrate our magazine's lively past and launch us into the future, Cactus National Monument, is 56 ALONG THE WAY we invite you to have a little fun and win some outstanding prizes by one of many original prints that TUCSON developed from that friendship. Bob Early, the poor old editor, takng our trivia quiz on page 48. Answers will be published in June; BISBEE Stored in the magazine’s vault for finally gets to sit back and ponder winners will be announced in September. (Plus, the poor old editor more than five decades, several the fundamental beauty of his POINTS OF INTEREST says goodbye on page 56, and meet our new editor on pages 2 and 3.) photographs from this historic beloved Arizona. FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE collection are published here for COVER the first time. See story, page 6. 58 BACK ROAD ADVENTURE [BACK COVER] Sunrise lights the The Magazine’s First Cover 6 massive sandstone span of Cove The ‘Lost’ Photographs Mesa Arch on the Navajo Indian You can take a leisurely drive south Reservation. ROBERT G. MCDONALD of Prescott and see the roadside of Ansel Adams scene where Arizona Highways shot its Starting in the 1940s, the renowned camera artist was first cover photograph 80 years ago. a treasured friend of Arizona Highways magazine, and he left us a collection of almost-forgotten work, some 62 DESTINATION of which we present in this issue. Bisbee’s Queen Mine BY RICHARD MAACK PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANSEL ADAMS A train ride along the deep passageways gives a sense of the hard, dangerous life miners had to endure. LOCATION 64 HIKE OF THE MONTH 18 Near Sedona, the recently completed Historic Munds Ancient Desert Messages, Wagon Trail follows an 1880s cattle-driving route. Meanings Unknown At Painted Rocks, southwest of Phoenix, we are left to wonder what long-ago people wanted to communicate {highways online} in this intriguing pile of volcanic boulders. at arizonahighways.com BY GREG MC NAMEE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JACK DYKINGA HUMOR BY GENE PERRET Our author finds there’s a limit to patience when 24 PORTFOLIO trying to get information from a stubborn bureaucrat. Pristine Places ONLINE EXTRA Our state has exquisite scenery unmatched in Finding Treasure Via Satellite America, and the second-best way to experience it is The Global Positioning System has opened up a through this selection of words and pictures of our new game for everyone, called geocaching, and it’s photographers' secret spots. a big hunt for hidden prizes. WEEKEND GETAWAY 44 HISTORY Patagonia Wyatt Earp’s Quest This southern Arizona town, rich with Old West history, has a modern culture of art to Find Peace and Quiet and music, plus interesting people. The legendary lawman did his best to put the EXPERIENCE ARIZONA gunfights and death from his Tombstone days behind A listing of major events in the state is him, spending later years along the Colorado River. available online. BY LEO W. BANKS 50 TRAVEL {highways on television} Follow Barry Goldwater Arizona Highways magazine has inspired an independently produced weekly to the Canyon’s Kolb Arch television series, hosted by Phoenix TV news anchor Robin Sewell. The half-hour program can be seen in several cities in English and Spanish. For channels and show In 1954, the U.S. senator began from a remote times, log onto arizonahighways.com; click on DISCOVER ARIZONA; then click on the helicopter landing spot and made a difficult hike to ‘Arizona Highways goes to television!’ link on the right-hand side. explore the 150-foot-high natural bridge. BY TOM KUHN PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD L. DANLEY Photographic Prints Each month, prints of some photographs Available from Arizona Highways will be offered for sale. The selected photos will be designated in the picture captions and will be available in two formats. To order prints by phone, call toll-free (866) 962-1191. (For other magazine related business: In Phoenix or outside the U.S., call (602) 712-2000, or call toll-free (800) 543-5432.) {letters & e-mail} by Peter Aleshire, editor {all who wander} APRIL 2005 VOL. 81, NO. 4 Publisher WIN HOLDEN Editor PETER ALESHIRE I wonder how many readers — primarily engineering Senior Editor BETH DEVENY Meet Arizona Highways' types, I suspect — will spot the howler on page 29 Managing Editor RANDY SUMMERLIN A Freshly Minted Editor Must Trust the Rope and the Song Research Editor LORI K. BAKER (“Tales of Lost Treasure”) in the article about lost Ninth Editor in 80 Years Editorial Administrator CONNIE BOCH mercury tubes? My guess is that somebody got the Administrative Assistant NIKKI KIMBEL felt a mingling of envy and fear as I watched sits in places. I have felt it while paddling through the eter Aleshire, a well-traveled outdoorsman units wrong on the size of the tubes. Exclusive of Director of Photography PETER ENSENBERGER Apache Indian guide Gregg Henry hook me to a reflected sky in a slot canyon of Lake Powell, hiking and longtime contributor to Arizona P the container weight, a column of mercury 6 inches Photography Editor RICHARD MAACK climbing rope that led off a cliff and down into a through a monsoon in the Chiricahua Mountains, Highways, takes the helm as the magazine’s I in diameter by 10 feet long would weigh about 8 Art Director BARBARA GLYNN DENNEY sluicing corkscrew of a waterfall deep in sacred Cibecue glimpsing a trogon in the thickets of the Huachucas, ninth editor in 80 years with this special Deputy Art Director BILLIE JO BISHOP tons — way over the 76.5 pounds you quoted. Canyon. pausing before the plunge into the Crystal Rapids of the anniversary issue. He replaces Robert J. “Bob” Art Assistant PAULY HELLER John Venable, Conneaut, OH Map Designer KEVIN KIBSEY I envied his fit to this place. Colorado River, standing on the spot in the Peloncillo Early, who retired after almost 15 years of You’re right, our expert confirms that they were Arizona Highways Books And I feared my own falling short. Mountains where Geronimo surrendered, making eye editorial leadership. (See Bob’s farewell column Editor BOB ALBANO probably 10 inches long, not 10 feet. I think that all my life, I’d been honing the envy. As a contact with a deer in fresh snow on the Grand Canyon’s on page 56.) Associate Editor EVELYN HOWELL Associate Editor PK PERKIN MCMAHON Aleshire has written many stories for cub reporter, I wrote about the song of the Chemeheuvi rim and wriggling into a limestone cavern that glistened Man vs. Nature Production Director KIM ENSENBERGER Indians, who lived in the with fleshy curtains of stone. Arizona Highways — earning numerous Promotions Art Director RONDA JOHNSON national awards while exploring every corner I agree with reader Ray Wells regarding Fossil Webmaster VICKY SNOW hard, harsh heart of the Now I realize that these places and the people who took Springs (“Letters & E-mail,” November ’04), who Mojave Desert. A boy me there each taught me another verse of that yearned-for of the state. Director of Sales & Marketing KELLY MERO wrote: “Some of us find beauty in the works of man came of age only when he song of belonging, each verse learned by heart. He says, “I’ve chased mountain lions on Circulation Director HOLLY CARNAHAN as well as in the works of nature.” memorized the song of his But suddenly, Bob Early, my great teacher, decided to muleback, rounded up cattle in river bottoms, Finance Director BOB ALLEN tipped a kayak in the rapids of the Salt River, Carried to extremes, environmental issues could clan, which took years to do other things. Perhaps at 68 his brand-new master’s Fulfillment Director VALERIE J. BECKETT ridden on a cavalry patrol along the Mogollon lead to the destruction of all evidence of our learn and days to sing. The degree in theology was burning a hole in the pocket of modern civilization. I do enjoy being out in nature, Information Technology Manager songs contained a verbal his mind. Bob agreed to write a fond farewell to the Rim and gotten stuck in the Big Sandy River. I CINDY BORMANIS and I think we should use reasonable methods to map of the clan’s claimed readers he has served so loyally these past 15 years (see don’t think most people have any clue what a FOR CUSTOMER INQUIRIES great state they live in. That’s why a magazine ensure its survival, but destroying an archaeological OR TO ORDER BY PHONE: territory, with references to page 56). like Arizona Highways is so important.” site isn’t reasonable, in my opinion. Call toll-free: (800) 543-5432 every water hole, seasonal Through some oversight, Highways Publisher Win Holden In the Phoenix area or outside the U.S., Aleshire has also written four history books Norman Severance, Chloride Call (602) 712-2000 bloom and haunt of the hired me to fill Bob’s oversized shoes.