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Open Roads Forum  >  Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping  > OK so we finaly made it to Quartzite! Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next bjcarpetguy • View posts On The Road Full Member Joined: 03/01/2009 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Offline Posted: 10/25/09 10:04pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator DW & I got to Quartzite yesterday and paid our 180.00 good till April 15th. We are at La Posa. I am still fighting an ant problem picked up in Cali. a couple weeks ago. So any ways we picked a pretty nice spot and all is well. Well More or less. Car broke down in Bakersfield as did MH. Fixed Mh but left the car till next payday. So I am wondering as we did a few little walks around the area and we see numerous little burrows in the ground but no sign of life. What are in them? Some look like maybe Tarantula dens or perhaps something else. Haven't seen anything and of course I have seen shows about the snakes, tarantulas and scorpians that inhabit the southwest US. Anyone who has camped here and has info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance BJ. Safe Travels Golden_HVAC • View posts Fulltime, CA, USA Senior Member Joined: 08/19/2003 View Profile Online Posted: 10/25/09 10:57pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Hi, Any chance it was rats that ate through the radiator hose in your car and RV? I hope that you can get rid of the ants. I found that by keeping all the sweet food in tight fitting lids, such as tupperware, it keeps them from getting something to eat or drink, and they will eventually die. Make sure that your daily trash is moved someplace the ants can not get to it. Good Luck, Fred. Don in Niagara • View posts Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Senior Member Joined: 01/14/2004 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Posted: 10/26/09 05:55am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Most likely ground squirrels or gophers? Sure see plenty of 'em in the winter when we are there. Still wouldn't stick my hand down one though!! We'll be there for THE SHOW in mid January. Have fun! Don and Patty 1990 Barth Regency 34' Spartan/Cummins 8.3 The Texan • View posts Summer: Cascade, Idaho - Winter: A Warm Climate Senior Member Joined: 01/16/2004 View Profile Posted: 10/26/09 08:33am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Some of those holes are field mice, I know because we just left there and came to Tucson, with a couple of them aboard. LOL. Set the trap the 1st night and got one, still at least one to go. Others are tarantulas as you thought and the larger ones can harbor snakes, so be careful. Yes, there are scorpions in the desert and they are not the small wimpy model, like they have back east. Bob & Betsy - USN Ret'd '78 & FL LEO Ret'd '03 & FT Class of 2002 '05 HR Endeavor 40PRQ, 400 Cummins -With-'05 GMC Sierra SLT, CC, Z-71, the pusher & our '07 Arctic Cat 500A & '08 Suzuki KQ 400A, riding in the pusher. Where the wheels are stopped chiefneon • View posts Senior Member Joined: 12/03/2001 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/26/09 10:27am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Howdy! We've seen the holes also but never seen anything type of critter around then. We'll be leaving Texas after Thanksgiving an headed to Q. "Happy Trails" chiefneon was_butnotnow • View posts Fulltime: Emery, SD Senior Member Joined: 05/28/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/28/09 01:32pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator The Quartzsite Libary has a book "Desert Holes" see below. Quartzsite Libary Arizona Room Free to check out books. One of our most popular titles is "Desert Holes" which explains what critter made what hole. Anyone who has walked in the desert has looked at countless holes in the ground. This book describes what lives in these holes, who digs them and who 'borrows' them. We have many titles on desert flora and fauna, mining, history, anthropology, and Native Americans. Another subject of considerable interest is water. "The Cadillac Desert" is a title that covers this subject extensively. We have Arizona Highways, Desert Magazine and Plateau Journal. There are reference materials on Hadj Ali, or "Hi Jolly" as he is known, as well as mining journals and a doctoral dissertation on the properties of the local Copperstone Mine. See where we are at: DataStormUsers map Sharing Travel Journals and Adventures Hitchitch.com Personal site Fulltime.Hitchitch.com klenger • View posts Tucson AZ Senior Member Joined: 12/10/2004 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/31/09 08:47am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator From my experience, critters live in those holes. 2008 Tiffin Allegro 32BA FRED Class A Motor Home 2008 Honda CRV, Blue Ox, SMI DUO Stay-in-Play Brake bill h • View posts coastal reconquista Senior Member Joined: 08/02/2001 View Profile Posted: 11/03/09 11:05am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator klenger wrote: From my experience, critters live in those holes. Quite true. Often, the present occupant is not the one that made the hole. Snakes and owls, for example. 84 Barth 30 tag powered by ht502/Thorley, Gear Vendors OD Siamese Calvin and Airedale Hobbes 4WD Toyota toad jwmII • View posts out west Senior Member Joined: 05/12/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/05/09 07:32pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I have always been under the impression that the BLM put all those holes out there for draining grey water into. jwmII bill h • View posts coastal reconquista Senior Member Joined: 08/02/2001 View Profile Posted: 11/07/09 03:19pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Be careful. The BLM is putting water sensors with locater transmitters in selected holes. Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping  > OK so we finaly made it to Quartzite!

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