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Hike at Oliver Lee's  Dog Canyon.....

12/28/2014

 
(  Writing this from Pancho Villa on December 28.   Very chilly the last few days, good time to get these posts caught up.  )


Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is located at the foot of Dog Canyon at the Sacramento Mountains.  It was the last strong hold of the Apache Indians.  On Saturday, the 15th of November, we  went on the ranger lead hike part way up the canyon.  Ranger Charles is very knowledgable about the nature and the history of the area and presented a very interesting two hour walk.   The next day he also lead a tour of the refurbished ranch house of Oliver Lee, also very interesting.
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A stream and fresh water pool that provided year round water supply to the Indians and their animals.
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View from the base of the canyon with the visitors center on the right. There are also trails up to the peak and over to the other valley.
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Saturday night's sunset.
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Picture of ranch house as seen from our campsite.
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The base of the original house was there but they had to re-do the entire roof and porches.
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Many pieces of furniture were donated by the Lee family and other period pieces were found locally. The pattern of this quilt is called broken wagon wheel.
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Sunday night's sunset.
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