Where should Jim go for Spring Break this year?

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 14 2010 3:54 pm

fricknaley · Post by **fricknaley** » Feb 14 2010 6:07 pm

i went with 3,4 and 6

big_load · Post by **big_load** » Feb 14 2010 6:16 pm

I'd go backpacking in AZ.

azbackpackr · Post by **azbackpackr** » Feb 14 2010 8:14 pm

Wha...no Lake Havasu on your list? Don't you want to watch Girls Gone Wild while breathing in healthy doses of carbon monoxide and beer fumes? What is the matter with you, man?

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 14 2010 8:22 pm

I'm open to suggestions, BTW

PaleoRob · Post by **PaleoRob** » Feb 14 2010 9:32 pm

You can join up with our GG trip.

rally_toad · Post by **rally_toad** » Feb 14 2010 9:52 pm

Too bad you can vote three times, but not three times for the same option. #3 coupled with hikes in the area, thats what I'd do.

But this spring break for me is JOSHUA TREE!! Cant wait!

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 14 2010 10:04 pm

I've been schnockered in Las Vegas many times so that's pretty low on the list. Joshua Tree NP sounds pretty damned cool, however, especially when coupled with some hikes in the SoCal high country.
PageRob I think you just added a new variable.

PaleoRob · Post by **PaleoRob** » Feb 14 2010 10:10 pm

We've got an extra permit at the moment. And you could easily extend your time in the area with Canyonlands/Natural Bridges/etc.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 14 2010 10:16 pm

PageRob, don't hold it for me but keep me in mind if it remains available. My buddy from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science keeps telling me that he's going to get us a trip to Keet Seel, but it hasn't happened yet. I need to get up to that area.

azbackpackr · Post by **azbackpackr** » Feb 15 2010 5:13 am

Keet Seel is not open until Memorial Day, unless your buddy has some sort of a deal, being from a museum. It might be awfully muddy this time of year, also. Keet Seel is also a very easy gig to set up, and is only a one-night backpack. You can't stretch the backpacking part of it to multiple nights, and you can't do anything while you are out there--you are confined to a small fenced area which you are not allowed to explore beyond, due to it all being Navajo Nation ranch lands. So you sit there in camp being bored. I would do something else if I were you. Grand Gulch is a way more cool trip than Keet Seel in many respects. Way more things to see, and no caged-in feeling. I'd go with Rob's invitation.

writelots · Post by **writelots** » Feb 15 2010 8:21 am

azbackpackr wrote:So you sit there in camp being bored.

Clearly, this woman hasn't been on one of MY backpacking trips

writelots · Post by **writelots** » Feb 15 2010 8:28 am

I voted for the Catalinas Camping and the Guadalupe Mountains...but my other vote would be for you to tag along on the GG trip with Rob and the gang (me too!). It's a nice time of year to be up on Frog Mountain - all the creeks will be pretty fat, and there should be some top-notch waterfall/swimming hole action. However, it could be quite wet and cold, too. I've been caught in more than one snowstorm on these mountains as late as April. It's just hard to predict (though I usually use my own hiking schedule as a weather indicator: if I'm planning a hike that would be better with warm weather, it's guaranteed to be wet and snowy!)

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Feb 15 2010 8:32 am

I actually like the Hitchcock campground for a quick get-away. Lots of trail opportunities nearby (Climbing, too.)

azbackpackr · Post by **azbackpackr** » Feb 15 2010 3:51 pm

writelots wrote:
azbackpackr wrote:So you sit there in camp being bored.
Clearly, this woman hasn't been on one of MY backpacking trips

This is true. But I don't like sitting around for very long, even if I have good company. When we went, I had the permit and was the "guide," and 9 mostly-SAHC members showed up. We did have lively conversation at the campsite while we waited our turn for going into the ruins with the ranger. Then afterward, some of the folks went and skinny dipped in the creek, (I heard about it later but wasn't invited.) Then in the evening the young Navajo ranger came back and asked if anyone wanted to see the ruins at night. My son went along with her. He said they saw the ch'indi (ghosts of the Anasazi.) He's still sticking to his story, too, 10 years later. Wish I would have gone, but those old ch'indi would have taken one look at me and not shown themselves, I'm sure.

So if you do go to Keet Seel, be sure to stroll back over to the ruin in the dark!

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 15 2010 6:03 pm

My buddy is an archaeologist

JoelHazelton · Post by **JoelHazelton** » Feb 15 2010 8:18 pm

Schnockered. Hiking is totally lame.

JimmyLyding · Post by **JimmyLyding** » Feb 15 2010 11:42 pm

Whatever I do will involve the consumption of muchas cervezas

SkyIslandHiker · Post by **SkyIslandHiker** » Feb 16 2010 9:20 am

Jim,

Since you're from Arizona and can hike here anytime, I would opt for Las Vegas - BUT instead of getting "schnockered"
I would head out with my hiking gear to nearby Red Rock Recreation Area, Valley of the Fire, and Mt. Charleston.

Bill Bens
TucsonHikers

Jeffshadows · Post by **Jeffshadows** » Feb 16 2010 9:22 am

Bill are you related to George Bush??