Cave Creek & Black Mountain (3398ft) Phoenix Part 2

I had planned on running the Aids 5k the next morning but after the hotel fire I found myself hours away by bus rather than three blocks away on foot so I got a coffee and took the bus to get a rental car. On the advice of the local coffee shop. I drove to Cave Creek to climb Black Mountain.
Cave Creek is worth the trip. It’s a funky town full of the sort of gift shops you really have to dig through. Mexico is only 100 miles away and odds are most of what is sold in Cave Creek comes directly from there. It’s a bit like a Wild West town full of metal sculpture art

I had to stop at The Town Dump which claims to be “one of the world’s most unusual stores”. It was definitely unusual although that is quite a claim! (I…