Currently I'm off of I-40 and there aren't any up here it's freezing as all hell. But I have a couple of buddies who are down in the Tucson and Phoenix areas and the pictures they're sending are just unbelievable. On my drive down from the Hoover dam towards Kingman I saw the the green wave and then the huge patches of yellow and purple and red flowers everywhere, totally amazing.
Lol, I’ve been a desert rat so long I risk hypothermia opening the fridge so you won’t catch me anywhere near the I-40 corridor until July.
We’ve had some good rains in the desert this year so it could be a banner year for flowers. Something that’s been rare for the last thirty some years. Hopefully spring will remain mild so it lasts. The colors against the greening are amazing.
There’s always the concern for wildfires once the summer sun cooks off all that beauty. We’ve had some nasty ones even without much flowering.
So of course leave it up to me to blow a once in a lifetime event. Yeah I fucked up being this high. I could however pop down 191 but I'd end up over in Safford and I don't think there's any flowers there because that's still high elevation.
Well if you got time post some pictures of the super bloom if you've taken any. Be kind of fun to see that. Don't worry about anyone calling you gay for posting flowers, they just have no appreciation for beauty.
South of Safford on Tanque Rd has been known to be good around this time. A fair bit from I-40 though.
This was just two years ago about this time….
https://hikearizona.com/photoset.php?ID=57564
Lol, superblooms can happen in one part of the state and not in another depending on the winter snow or rainfall so you might could still get into some. I think over all the state got a pretty decent amount.
Nobody who has ever stood in the desert during a superbloom wouldn’t consider it gay!
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