Going to explore Ghost Town at Seneca, Arizona

We thought we would go for a nice Sunday drive by ourselves to explore a ghost town near Seneca, Arizona.  We got into the trail and we couldn't turn around.  The trail was on a mountain side covered in snow and ice and then deep mud.  At one point the jeep almost went over a cliff.  When we made it to the ghost town we just turned around and had to go back out the way we came in.  Scary!  It was only 3 miles but it took forever.  We got back to the highway and the tires were so caked in mud that Gary couldn't steer the jeep.  He had to scrape the mud out and washed the rest out when we got back to the campground.