Hello fellow Hazers. It's that time of year again. I hope you all had a great 2014. I would love to here how you all did on your 2014 Hazalutions and what you have planned for 2015.
First of all we still haven't found GPS JOE. If anyone gets out to help look for him thanks in advance. We had an awful tragedy in the loss of a super nice guy. RIP John. Grace is hanging in there but her hip and weak left side is keeping her off trail for now.
I had some great trips and mixed it up a little. I did a couple races included my second and best(probably last) half marathon with Kelly. I rode a couple thousand bike miles included a ride to Canyon Lake and one to Florence with JohnLP. I got to do the Escalante Route in the Grand Canyon with an awesome group of Hazers. I even did a couple California (sorry AZ) hikes including climbing Mount Whitney and Kersarge Pass with awesome scenery with some more awesome Hazers. I did lots of hiking with my Son which haz been a blast. I got him to do Humphrey's and will try and get him in the Canyon next year. I did get to do a couple Tucson hikes with a couple Loco locals ;) . I did not hit 1,000 miles but I'm ok with that. I hurt my knee (JohnLP) some how and have been scaled back for a few months. Thanks to all of you that have let me run,hike,bike or talk to you all year. You ALL ROCK!
For 2015 I just want my knee to GET BETTER!!!!!!! and do lots of fun stuff with plenty of Hazers including my Son! LiLD haz made it a special year and I'm not giving up on Grace .
GPS Joe and John won't be forgoten.
I wish you all a Happy New Year and hope it's your best one yet! Please be safe and "Take a Hike".
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I see more and more goals, which I guess is what a HAZalution is. At any rate, if goals are it, then I am interested in hiking interesting peaks and areas west of I-10/ I-19, and south of I-8 and south of I-10. These are hikes such as Table Mountain, Castle Dome Peak, and so on. I would like to drive the El Camino Del Diablo, but I suspect my Subaru is handicapped, not handicappable, out on that. What might be some other interesting desert peaks, to hike this late winter and spring, when it warms?
There's also South Mountain (Tonoho O'Odham) and Gu Achi Peak. I'd like to do those, but only with company that is preferably armed. They probably don't see many visitors aside from smugglers.
I'm already 25k less aeg than I was this time last year. This years goal is to do more new peaks than last years 55. I've already done 3 new ones this year Hope to finally knockout the full SF ring...hit the Mazzy Sweet 16, Mother Lode from Roosevelt Lake, GC summits, and more technical climbs and maybe finish the AZT. blah...blah...blah. I'd need to train way harder. I just hope to have another fun year of hiking and being safe.
I also hope to hike with Denny once or twice this year.
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Maybe you and azdesertfather could do the Highline. It's a good one.
Yeah, friendofThundergod was telling me you might be interested in it a few days ago. Let’s do it!!
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau
Not that I'm counting, but I noticed I have a "0" for the number of peaks hiked this year, which surprised me when I noticed it, as Agua Caliente and Wasson from Kings Canyon are very much peak hikes, and Blackett's Ridge and Pontatoc Trail are soft peak hikes, as they end at a peak, but no they are not peaks like Agua or Wasson. Oh, well. Not that I'm counting. Hey, I have 4 unique hikes and even without Pusch my AEG is looking good. Also, not that I'm counting.
Perhaps another time for that, but I submit that Agua Caliente, King's Canyon to Wasson, Blackett's Ridge, and Pontatoc Ridge are, or should be considered for Peak Status.
@Jim_H What chum said. If you are a software developer like Joe, it really helps if inputs are categorized so he can manage inputs that come in as corrections separately from monitoring forum comments. Because he is a software professional we should assist him as much as we can.
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Your corrections are 100% correct so help Joe by submitting in a way helpful to him
Chumley noted that my personal hiking map has few dots that are black, green, or orange, as the hand full of Red Dots covers up most of my other dots and I have tended to hike the same trails over and over. Therefore, my goal is to accumulate an increasing number of black and green dots, spread across the land (in Arizona since the map is set back to AZ). Orange and Red are too hard to get with the frequency requirements and that conflicts with the new dot goal. It's about dots, all about dots.
I could have sworn you started what was at least 15 minutes rant about the need for more pins, colored pins, who has the most pins, where those pins were, pins, pins, pins.
Jim_H wrote:Therefore, my goal is to accumulate an increasing number of black and green dots, spread across the land
I like this concept. The abstraction appeals to me, although it would be even better if the dots accumulated through an undiscoverable process that gives an unsettling feeling of being possibly arbitrary, yet still connected to actual hiking.
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This years goal is to do more new peaks than last years 55. I've already done 3 new ones this year 
