Spring Break in Arizona and New Mexico

I took this trip during the spring break of 1996. It was organized by the SIUC Recreational Center. There was about 15 people present, we had a van and a U-Haul trailer behind and drove all the way there and back.

Trip plan (Overall map):
Drive from Carbondale to Phoenix, Az. (30 hrs.) - Three days of hiking in Gila Wilderness Area, about one hour drive east of Phoenix - Grand Canyon (it was snowing here, so we were there only one night) - Sedona, Az. (Red Rock State Park) - Tuscon, Az. - White Sands Natl. Mon., N.M. (sandy desert between Las Cruces a Alamogordo - drive back to Carbondale

Pictures:
Miner's Needle, the prettiest mountain in Gila Wilderness Area
Me on the Miner's Needle
Me and one of the largest cacti in Gila Wilderness
Still life with a stone and a cactus, a little below the Miner's Needle top
Grand Canyon under snow
Our campsite in the White Sands, drying all the stuff after Grand Canyon
Footsteps in the sand
Sunset over the White Sands

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