Skull Cave 3.0 - third time's a charm!

[Hippy]

I gave in, hammered out some details at my own discretion and here it is.

Saturday February 9th
Carpool and/or meet at Cottonwood Camp at 5am (earlier if I can sucker y'all into it!)
We're gonna tackle this as a day hike, 9 miles out another 9 back, obviously.

If you haven't done this hike before or are not familiar with it, please do a bit of research.
There is no trail, which means its 18 miles of beastly bushwhacking through saguaro and cholla and every other type of sharp, pointy, defensive succulent you can possibly imagine.
The first few miles after leaving the dirt road are up then down and up again, over and over and over, through the aforementioned forest of pokey, spiney, blood thirsty cacti.
There can also be some fun scrambles up and over big boudlers down near Hell's Hip Pocket depending which route we decide to "follow"/make up.
I guess I'm saying this isn't easy. If you're not a stronger hiker please don't attempt this (yet!) it's going to be fast paced and just a bit intense.

So...other than my request that you be able to take care of yourself and keep a quick pace, anyone is welcome to come along on this silly adventure of mine

[Tough_Boots]

I might have to go just to make sure you make it back. ;)

[Hippy]

I need someone to keep an eye on me for sure...i might have too many cookies and take a wrong turn.

[Alston_Neal]

Nine miles in, no prob. Nine miles out same day......How good are you and PLC902736541758932 at carrying a big boned guy like myself out?
That's a place I've always wanted to see. Wish I could join ya, have fun....

[PLC92084]

@Alston Neal
It's mostly downhill to the river once we reach the cave... can you swim?

[Hippy]

Alston I can be persuaded to go
A 4th time. River access would leave just a thousand foot steep hike up to the cave.

[Tough_Boots]

I'm gonna think about this one...

[BobP]

it's going to be fast paced

anyone who can do this fast paced..... is a total beast

fast paced = over 1.5 mph

[Hippy]

@rlrjamy oh good grief.

[Hippy]

anyone else want in on this? just curious because we changed times but figure it doesn't matter...no one else is really crazy enough to join us anyway