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Day 6 | Mile 53.3 – 68.4
I saw two horned lizards! I meandered through a beautiful section with white boulders disrupting the otherwise green landscape. I camped near a manmade water source, because this section did not have as many opportunities for water collection. There were about 6 other tents in that area, but it was a quite night (other than
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Day 4 | Mile 32.6 – 42.6
Into the town of Mt. Laguna today! I saw the first snow on trail, but it was just a small patch. The desert shrubbery gave way to a tall pine forest (oh the wonderful smells!) as I climbed to over 6000′ elevation. ⇠ Previous Day Next Day ⇢
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Day 3 | Mile 20 – 32.6
Water is flowing! I crossed over Kitchen Creek in the morning, and kept my feet dry. I saw an egg, but didn’t collect it since it’s not Easter just yet. It has been incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly windy. In the evening, we saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch of 22 Starlink satellites. ⇠ Previous Day
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Day 2 | Mile 14.0 – Mile 20.0
I got an easy quick 6 miles in before the afternoon showers. I enjoyed beautiful views of Morena Reservoir before descending down into Lake Morena County Park for the evening. We saw many other hikers camped out, making use of the quarter showers (which were either ice cold or burning hot), restrooms, and Malt Shop
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Days 10 & 11 | Arizona Trail
Zero Days #2 & #3 Vail, Arizona After we arrived in our second trail town, Vail, Arizona, we decided to take a double zero for Tom to ice his persistent knee injury. We caught a ride back to Tucson, AZ to rest up in an affordable hotel. After two days, there was no change, and
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Day 9 | Arizona Trail
Mile 97 – 111.9 Today we pushed through open fields with more and more cacti as we approached the trail town of Vail, Arizona. It was a long day, especially for Tom, who has been struggling with a knee injury. We plan to rest up before moving on into Saguaro National Park in the next
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Day 8 | Arizona Trail
Mile 82.1 – 97 The weather has been a little bit of everything. Sometime hot, sometimes cool, breezy, still, dry, rainy. We searched an searched for a great campsite, but this section of trail has been both incredibly rocky, and filled with cow pies. We finally decided on an area covered with cow pies, and
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Day 6 | Arizona Trail
Mile 52.4 – 67.2 The Arizona desert has been stunning! A lot of people may just picture endless flat sand, but the trail is anything but that. We still haven’t had any long water carries, despite hiking in the desert. We’ve had a lot of water crossings, and a lot of interesting water sources, most
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Day 7 | Arizona Trail
Mile 67.2 – 82.1 The day was rocky, with over 2,500 feet of elevation gain, and over 2,000 feet of elevation loss. Kentucky Camp Ghost Town After a long day, we reached a small building with running water. It was Kentucky Camp, a ghost town. The camp host let us stay the night inside, which
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Day 5 | Arizona Trail
Zero Day #1 No hiking for us today! We spent the day in the adorable town of Patagonia, AZ. Tom overextended his knee hiking through deep snow, and on top of that has a wet cough, we assume came from the high elevation. We’ll hang out in town until both of these issues clear up