Freehiking General Crook Trail 


On Monday, 3/9/2020, Amy and I freehiked the General Crook trail along with Greg.  (Others were invited but were not available.)  This trail is only about 35 minutes from our place in Dewey.  I carnuded there and back; Amy wore her sun dress.  The weather was nice; this an ideal hike when it’s cooler in early spring.  It starts at General Crook turnoff, just off Highway 17, south of Camp Verde.  It is moderately difficult, mostly because the wash has many large boulders.  It begins at a closed road sign, and then bears left up a dirt road.  We got naked soon after turning up the dirt road.  Before long, we reached the Grief Hill Forest Service water tank.  We then walked passed that to where the road crossed the wash, and turned left up the wash.  The wash wanders through lots of beautiful vegetation – pines, etc.  Camp Verde can be seen at times down the valley.  We hiked past where the wash splits, taking the right-hand wash.  Amy paused at an ideal sitting rock while Greg and I continued a ways.  Then we all turned around and hiked back.  After a wonderful naked hike in nature, we left Greg and drove back home.  As always, it was a great to spend the day together naked in nature.