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| partners | | Another nice over night trip into the Eastern Supes. BiFrost and slowandsteady were looking for some shuttle help to knock out a section of the AZT, and it does not take much to convince me to head out to the Supes, so I tagged along with them for part of their trip. We had spent the week trying to come up with creative ways to get my car back to Phoenix so I could complete the thru-hike with them and avoid the two plus hour Sunday evening drive back to Rogers TH. There ended up being too many moving parts to coordinate that, so I settled for an out and back.
We completed a pretty leisurely 13 mile hike on Saturday with some nice breaks, pauses to take in the scenery and a few quick detours to see the sights. I gamble on a refilling water at Walnut Spring and almost sorely regretted it. There seems to be water everywhere in the Eastern Supes except its northwestern section, which is known to be notoriously dry. Ended up with a pretty nice little camp site were then annoyed by about a 45 minute pretty light shower.
I broke camp pretty early and left Karl and Kathy just before 6:30. Hiked out hard to avoid hitting the Renaissance rush made it back to car just before 12:30. Traffic was a little heavy on the 109S, had to pass a couple of larger mule trains on my way out ;)
Small World Anecdote: Ran into the guy who gave me an ace knee wrap on Mt. Graham last year. Good fortune for me that day to run into him, I think we were the only two on the mountain that day. He was doing Superior to Lake Roosevelt and remembered me because of dogs. I said thanks again for the knee wrap, filled him in on water conditions and chatted for a couple minutes. |
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