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| Hiking | 6.00 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 6.00 Miles | 6 Hrs | | 1.11 mph |
| 2,530 ft AEG | 35 Mns Break | 15 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | | Two days in a row saw me driving back out to the wildlife watering tanks to hike this. Unlike yesterday, I didn't cliff out half way up. Instead, I went a bit further south of the ridge I was climbing due to cholla, rocks, and unfamiliarity with the hike, and went for a sub-peak. It wasn't the big one, but that is further away. I went over to the summit and had to avoid a few more cliff sections. From there, down to the tanks, again cliffs, and made a huge mistake going well below where I should have been and cliffed out above where I cliffed out below, yesterday. Then I ran around like a mad man, gaining and loosing ground, going back and forth burning precious daylight. I didn't want to become a statistic and forced myself on a steep path with lots of lose rock, sharp pointy plants that are filled with hate, and greasy green grass over the rocks. I was back on the less deadly slopes before sunset, and my car by 645. I won't do this again for a while, and would only do it with other people. I think, for me, it is just stupid solo. My corpse would fester out there for days, before someone missed me. It is too steep, cliffy, and treacherous to hike like I hoped, and though I may summit once more, I doubt it will be another orange dot hike any time soon. |
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