The Kadizzlites sit below the peaks of the Superstition Mountains in Lost Dutchman State Park, in AZ. Kadizzle remembers years ago hiking up Siphon Draw. It is one of the two nastiest hikes in the area. Once you start up the draw you have to climb about straight up.
Years ago when we first hiked it The Commander insisted we go to the top. Kadizzle was in a fat lazy mood and told the old Commander that she could go by herself, he would wait at the bottom. As Kadizzle sat on a rock and The Commander buzzed up the mountain and old guy 85 came along the trail. The old guy said " What are you doing here?". Kadizzle explained he was waiting for his wife to make the hike and come back. The old man who said he had just had open heart surgery a couple of months ago said, " This is where all the old ladies stop". Well Kadizzle could not accept this insult and headed up the steep incline with the old man. Kadizzle huffed and puffed and had a hard time keeping up with the old guy.
Nearing the top with the old guy Kadizzle was amazed to see a bunch of old ladies coming down the mountain. For the old ladies to be coming down they must have started up at six A.M. God must have put these women on a mission to really rub it in to Kadizzle about what a slubba he was.
At the top we found The Commander and the old guy talked us into going down a way only a few knew about. The trip down was practically vertical, but the old goat told us we would get to see the remains of a plane crash. When we reached the point where a military jet had hit the mountain in 1979, we found a pile of plant parts, none of which were bigger than a paper plate.
Sitting below Siphon Draw today Kadizzle reflects back on that hike and that plane crash. It is strange that the jest should strike the mountain inside the deep canyon. Could pilot have thought he cold fly through the canyon.
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