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| partners | | Day 2 of my weekend in the Pinalenos. Chad and I started out Hiking to Grand View Peak. We had originally tried to do this Hike yesterday, but had trouble finding the Trail where it started off the old Logging Road.
Today, Chad had a few ideas, so we went back and found the Trail. It is faint and there are only a couple of Cairns to guide you and there is alot of debris from this past winter, but nothing big. We climbed up a couple of areas to see some views and then hit Grand View Peak. There were some nice views to the South, West and East, but we stayed only long enough to get a few pictures, as the Wind was howling today and it was threatening to blow us right off the top...  After scrambling down that Peak, we Hiked across a nice little saddle and hit another high spot briefly, enjoying the views to the North and West.
The Wind became a big determining factor on what we did the rest of the day. It was sustained at about 40 MPH with 50-60 MPH gusts. I actually wore a hat hiking today, the first time ever.... 
We got back to the car, and Chad directed me to the Soldier Creek Campground. I think this is one of my favorite Campgrounds. We took the Grant Creek Trail for a ways and Chad showed me some Ice Caves. You can only enter one of the ones we saw, the rest were going to require Technical and Safety Gear to drop into. The one we went into was small and didn't have any Ice, but we ran into one that we didn't enter, that most likely did, judging from the very cold draft flowing from the hole. We hit one more, but again, was not doable without gear. I managed to go in about 2 steps on a ledge and get a couple of pics of the inside room, but it was quite a drop from the ledge and even I wasn't going to risk that...I may be adventurous, but when it comes to Caves and Mines, I don't take any chances at all....
Hiked back to the vehicle and continued with our day. Two nice, quick little Hikes accomplished.  |
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