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Because the upper opening to the Bluejay Mine is treacherous, it's surrounded by barbed wire

4262-bluejay-mine.jpg Atop the steep hill I'm climbing is a piece of old range fence that I passed earlier todayThumbnailsBeecher Canyon, scenic and tempting, but I'll stay up here on the saddle a bit longer so I can hike down into Globe CanyonAtop the steep hill I'm climbing is a piece of old range fence that I passed earlier todayThumbnailsBeecher Canyon, scenic and tempting, but I'll stay up here on the saddle a bit longer so I can hike down into Globe CanyonAtop the steep hill I'm climbing is a piece of old range fence that I passed earlier todayThumbnailsBeecher Canyon, scenic and tempting, but I'll stay up here on the saddle a bit longer so I can hike down into Globe CanyonAtop the steep hill I'm climbing is a piece of old range fence that I passed earlier todayThumbnailsBeecher Canyon, scenic and tempting, but I'll stay up here on the saddle a bit longer so I can hike down into Globe CanyonAtop the steep hill I'm climbing is a piece of old range fence that I passed earlier todayThumbnailsBeecher Canyon, scenic and tempting, but I'll stay up here on the saddle a bit longer so I can hike down into Globe Canyon

I try to imagine how green this area used to look before the 2005 brush fires that swept through here.