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to workout except for ellipticals and treadmills, I found a couple little hikes to do. John added a bit of a climb on the last one and I'm glad he did altho it was the usual slow going for me on the way up. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
for me. Plus I thot we could get this out of the way so we could do some 'sploring and John could maybe do some climbing at Red Mtn 
. The weather was ominous as soon as we hit north of Flagstaff. And like most hiking folks, we would just hope 
the storms would miss us. We drove right past the turn off for 191 but turned around quickly. For future reference, the turn to the left from Flagstaff is a little ways after mile marker 242. The road in was full of lots of water-filled puddles but nothing unmanageable.
including toward the Grand Canyon. We had a snack here but didn't stay long as the weather was tenuous at best. On the way down we were treated to growling thunder and could see lightning strikes from time to time. I captured some of the thunder on the video Part 2. We did get caught in some of the rain but not bad.... until we had to hit the road.
I dreaded driving thru back on the farm. It's the sticky mud we would get on the roads between the fields. But like any kind of driving like this, you got to keep the speed up, steer into the slides and you'll be good. I kept thinking, I wish I had some metal fence posts (that's what we used to get us traction if we got hung up in a mud hole - it's kinna like those "keepers" you canyoneer folks speak of 
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. So I rolled down the window and banged on the door and whooped a bit to get them to move. Mission accomplished without delay. Silly cows 
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to Tonto. It was gooey 
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