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I walk down into Beecher Canyon on what's left of the old raised road that someone carefully constructed perhaps a century ago

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5070-beecher-canyon.jpg At the drop-off into Beecher Canyon, I spot a historic stack of rocks that once shored up a bypass road around the drop-offThumbnailsOnce down in Beecher Canyon, I look up at distant rock formations in the Providence Mountains in the area around Summit SpringAt the drop-off into Beecher Canyon, I spot a historic stack of rocks that once shored up a bypass road around the drop-offThumbnailsOnce down in Beecher Canyon, I look up at distant rock formations in the Providence Mountains in the area around Summit SpringAt the drop-off into Beecher Canyon, I spot a historic stack of rocks that once shored up a bypass road around the drop-offThumbnailsOnce down in Beecher Canyon, I look up at distant rock formations in the Providence Mountains in the area around Summit SpringAt the drop-off into Beecher Canyon, I spot a historic stack of rocks that once shored up a bypass road around the drop-offThumbnailsOnce down in Beecher Canyon, I look up at distant rock formations in the Providence Mountains in the area around Summit SpringAt the drop-off into Beecher Canyon, I spot a historic stack of rocks that once shored up a bypass road around the drop-offThumbnailsOnce down in Beecher Canyon, I look up at distant rock formations in the Providence Mountains in the area around Summit Spring

The people who built this road to bypass the drop-off probably never imagined that it might be used as a hiking trail decades later.