More graffiti as these two hikers were carving names into a tree. If you know them, please let NPS know.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

So I start hiking when it's 105 degrees and when I reach the summit it's 111 degrees at the designated temperature recording location. What do I do now, magically transport myself home? Beam me up Scotty!

L0tr_Saruman wrote:Hello everyone,

Typically I would just look through the trail list (and I have been), but i really need this trip to be perfect because I will be proposing!

Let's just hope she's also not a HAZ member.

This is one occasion where cotton fabric is preferred over synthetic. I always carry an old fashioned cotton bandana, soak it in water, and wear it on my head for a cooling apparatus. And if you have the luxury of a shaved head as I do, then you really get the cooling effect!

@LansfordHastings So are you reporting that Arizona's peak total (3,928) is derived by the 200-foot drop applied by AMC? As far as I can tell, there seems to be no recognized standard, so I doubt that the AMC guidelines mean much when it comes to other areas. I guess it's more a case of "make ...

Yes fascinating and impressive. But after looking that up myself, that's why I posted the question. Which remains unanswered. I wonder what peak criteria the HAZ trivia count uses. It's a figure repeated all over the web but I haven't found one with a definition. For reference, the Appalachian Moun...

The perps have been located...

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1563/graffiti-at-grca.htm

The NPS is looking to identify the two people in this article who were spray painting graffiti at Grand Canyon National Park.

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1563/graffiti-at-grca.htm

https://www.facebook.com/dougducey/?fref=ts

Although this is Ducey's personal page:

https://www.facebook.com/doug.ducey.9?fref=ts

And also from univision, her father recently came to the canyon to do his own search.

http://www.univision.com/noticias/desap ... g-daughter

Official opening of the Glassford Hill trail in two weeks:

http://www.dcourier.com/news/2016/may/1 ... n-runwalk/

I would go to breakfast and order the waffles this time instead of the pancakes.

I just installed this and will try and give it a workout on my next hike. Now this is coming from an old geezer who came into the Android phone system, kicking and screaming. When I was in the hospital, my son called from New England and told my wife, "Tell Dad to get a smart phone so we know w...

On Monday, I hiked down Hermit, Boucher, out to Dripping Springs, then exited via the Dripping Springs trail (old Silver Bell) to Eremita Mesa, then followed the forest roads back to the Abyss on Hermit Road. Saw no signs of Diana (clothing, hat, backpack, etc) on my route. The missing person poster...

I have a tentative hike on Sunday 4/17 to go down the Hermit Trail, thence out to Dripping Springs with a possibility of continuing on to the Dripping Springs trail head (zone SC9) and then either loop around the forest roads to come out at the Abyss shuttle stop or possibly go back down via the Wal...

The town of PV is opening a new hiking trail up Glassford hill. Tentative date is sometime in May. The construction also includes a parking area.

http://dcourier.com/news/2016/feb/26/gl ... n-build-p/