The 2006 Syncro Safari adventure will take place in America’s great Southwest near Tombstone, Arizona. The event will include Syncronauts from near and far, socializing, 4-wheeling, and maybe even campfire sing- a-longs. This is a semi-intimate event with only 10 Syncros, so that everyone can get to know the other in the group. By the end of the week, people you met days before might start feeling more like family than strangers.
Just the Facts:
Where: Near Tombstone, AZ with our campsite at Patagonia Lake State Park
When: November 19 - 25, 2006
Who: Five have signed up so far. Registration is open. Maximum of 10 Syncros
What: A week of 4-wheeiling, camping & recreation with Syncronauts
Why: We’ve got Syncros, Arizona’s got trails!
W-itinerary: (Preliminary) More details, click here
Sunday, Nov 19 – Arrive, make camp, make friends
Monday, Nov 22 – 4-wheeling: Flux Canyon Trail
Tuesday, Nov 21 – Free Day
Wednesday, Nov 22 – 4-wheeling: Temporal Gulch Trail
Thursday, Nov 23 – Free Day Thanksgiving Dinner!!
Friday, Nov 24 – 4-wheeling: Canelo Hills Trail
Saturday, Nov 25 – Break camp, Say goodbyes, depart, or stay another night…
Sunday, Nov 26 – Alternate Break Camp & Depart day
Patagonia Lake State Park (the event campsite)
At two and a half miles long and 250 surface acres, Patagonia Lake is popular for a variety of recreational activities, including water skiing, fishing, camping, picnicking, and hiking. Created by the damming of Sonoita Creek, the lake is habitat for bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish, and is stocked with rainbow trout during the winter. For anglers' sake, the east half of the lake is designated a no wake area. A handicap fishing dock is located at the marina and behind the Sonoita Creek visitor center.
- Beach, picnic area with ramadas, tables and grills, fishing pad (handicapped accessible)
- Hiking trails, boat ramps, marina, camp supply store, campground, group-use area (day-use)
- 72 developed, 34 hook-ups and 12 boat access sites, restrooms, showers and dump station
- Sonoita Creek State Natural Area - Arizona's first major state natural area
http://www.azparks.gov/Parks/parkhtml/patagonia.html
Tombstone (nearby)
Visit Tombstone Arizona and you’ll step back into the rough and tough days of western history. In the 1880s, Tombstone was a booming mining town that brought a rush of those looking to strike it rich. Gold and silver was the lure that also became a magnet to thieves, card-sharks, murderers, rustlers and an abundance of unsavory bad guys. The streets came alive with hundreds of saloons, gambling halls and bawdy houses.
Surviving a day in Tombstone was a victory as its famous Boot Hill Cemetery overflowed with those shot during poker games, killed in drunken-induced gunfights and even hung for simply becoming a public nuisance. Undertaking was no doubt a lucrative profession.
Tombstone Arizona is perhaps most famous for its Gunfight at OK Corral when the Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan, along with friend Doc Holliday shot it out with the Clanton and McLaury Gang. The fierce gunfight was quick and when the bullets stopped flying, Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury lay dead. Billy’s brother Ike Clanton kept his life that day, but was eventually murdered near Springerville Arizona. Virgil and Morgan Earp needed weeks to recover from serious wounds, but Doc Holliday was barely grazed by a bullet. Surprisingly, Wyatt Earp was unscathed.
http://www.cityoftombstone.com/ |
