Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Grand Enchantment Trail - Yahtzee!
How's this for some cheap trail entertainment? Thru-hikers are notorious ounce-counters and it doesn't get much lighter than this!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Grand Enchantment Trail - El Niño
As many of you know, we are going to be hiking the Grand Enchantment Trail this spring. In fact, we are leaving in about three weeks! It looks like it will be a fantastic year to hike it due to our massive winter rains. But this also presents a conundrum. If you look closely at the map above, we cross those lovely purple splotches that represent 180% of average snowfall! So, while we'll be thankful for the water and wildflowers in the desert, we'll be facing significant stretches of snow (the trail reaches nearly 11,000' in five different sections of trail). This illustrates what hikers call the "weather window". The idea is to start early enough in the season to beat the heat in the lower elevations but not to arrive in the mountains before the snow is melted out. Therefore, picking a start date is kind of a gamble. Luckily, our schedule allows us to be flexible. I believe there will be about 3-4 other hikers attempting a thru-hike this spring and all of them are starting before us. Only time will tell who guessed right!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sweet bike rack dude!
Lori and I threw this together in an afternoon. You may remember our previous attempt.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Seven Falls
Did a nice hike out to Seven Falls today. Perfect 72' weather and obviously a lot of water - had to cross the creek 8-9 times! With the snowfall we've had on Mt. Lemmon, I'd say it will be flowing like this for a good long time.
Monday, March 1, 2010
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