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| Hiking | 7.00 Miles |
2,100 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.00 Miles | 2 Hrs 8 Mns | | 3.72 mph |
| 2,100 ft AEG | 15 Mns Break | 13 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | Today's after work adventure was a Yaeger Canyon loop hike, on a glorious, warm, spring day. The only hikers I saw today passed me while I was loading up. They mentioned being able to smell me before they saw me (I was spraying undercoating on my truck  ). I mentioned the gagging stench of the dead porcupine  laying on the shoulder of the highway next to me (the first time I ever saw a porcupine, by the way, and it was dead  ). Leaving the highway behind, I started up the Little Yaeger Trail...
Ponderosa perfume hung heavy in the air atop the Mingus Mountain plateau, and snow was melting quickly. I slogged through endless, sticky, gooey mud, growing several inches taller in the process. Slushy snow and puddles were a relief. No one had been on the Yaeger Cabin Trail since last Friday's snowfall. A late afternoon hike in a deserted forest is wonderfully relaxing.
I descended Yaeger Canyon Trail at dusk, and finally, navigated by headlamp along the canyon floor back to the highway. I concluded the evening with a trip to Jerome, where I enjoyed a delicious dinner at Haunted Hamburger, and a bit of street wandering.
An afternoon and evening well spent.  |
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| "…you never know when a hike might break out" -Jim Gaffigan |
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