Bradshaw Mountains

The Arizona Game and Fish Department is warning that part of the route for this weekend's three-day gravel bike race in the Prescott area runs through active hunting zones.

The general deer hunt is underway, and depending on the day, participants in the Rough Rider race will be in areas near Camp Wood and certain sections of the Bradshaw Mountains, Copper Basin, and Skull Valley.

The department asks hunters, cyclists, and others to take precaution.

Mexican authorities recently claimed to have found a woman who disappeared in Arizona more than two years ago.

I swear to God, if you're truly on single track trails and there's a lot of elevation on these trails, like, you are [laughs] gonna be getting a workout.

I've had my heart rate go up higher climbing up Panther Mountain or, I'm trying to think, that first 37 miles in Cocodona in the Bradshaw Mountains.

I mean, when you're really rock scrambling and climbing and trying to move efficiently and quickly, your heart rate will be going through the ceiling, and honestly, you're still putting in a ton of effort.

And sometimes even if you wanted to run, there's no way you could run [laughs] because the grade is just too steep and the terrain is just too challenging.

He worked at or near the Vulture Mine, the richest gold mine in Arizona Territory history, located about eighty miles west of Phoenix.

He worked in the Bradshaw Mountains, a significant mining district about a hundred miles north of Phoenix.

He worked in the Salt River region in the vicinity of the Superstition Mountains.

He was one of thousands of prospectors, miners, and mining men in a territory that was producing significant gold, silver, and copper throughout the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, a territory that attracted every variety of fortune seeker from legitimate mining engineers to con men to desperados to quiet, stubborn, solitary men who walked the hills alone and kept their own counsel.