Thanks for your reply. I think the Mammuts are heavier than what my gf is talking about. After I posted my question I got manic about the issue and did a search on Google images for "north face hiking pants" and just went through the images until I found the North Face OSP pants, which I t...

I need your help. A couple of weeks ago my girlfriend and I were up at the Grand Canyon. We where hiking when she suddenly grabbed my arm and said, "those are the hiking pants I want," and pointed to a guy who was wearing gray hiking pants with a dark blue seat patch and dark blue knee pat...

Some background on why I asked my question in the first place: I have a botanist friend who did field studies on the east side of the Santa Ritas, so he was in the area quite a bit and extremely familiar with it. In 2006 he decided that it wasn't worth the effort or the risk of continuing his work i...

Thanks for everyone's replies! What got me thinking about the Santa Rita/Wrightson area again was this photoset: http://hikearizona.com/photoset.php?ID=16471 . I thought it would be great to do that loop (since I hadn't done all of it in the past), esp while the flowers are still out. I was thinking...

I haven't hiked or backpacked in the Santa Ritas, including Mt. Wrightson, since about 2009 when reports started appearing about drug mules and illegal immigrants using the Wrightson trails (among others in the area). Since I generally prefer to hike and backpack alone I'm concerned for my safety in...