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| Hiking | 16.03 Miles |
4,393 AEG |
| | Hiking | 16.03 Miles | 6 Hrs 55 Mns | | 2.41 mph |
| 4,393 ft AEG | 16 Mns Break | 15 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | My wife was in California celebrating her father's 80th birthday, so I was free to roam about the countryside. After calling my mother to wish her a happy Mother's Day, I got in the truck and headed to the Pinal Mountains.
I love hiking the Pinal Mountains. Go up any one of the major trails that run up and down the mountain and come down another and you have a great loop hike. Link them all in, as others have done, and you have a killer hike. As I found out last fall, though, trying to do all four in one day IS HARD!!! So I lightened the load a bit today. Most of Six Shooter, most of Telephone Trail (not the ridge), most of Icehouse and all of Kellner.
I got a late start today, but I new it was going to be cool in the mountains so it didn't really matter. I left the TH at 10:45. Some heavy breathing up Sixshooter, breezed down Telephone, some more heavy breathing going up Icehouse, caught my breath along FR651, then eased on down Kellner.
The weather was about as good as it gets. I felt cool throughout the hike. It's green everywhere once you get into the trees. The trails are in good shape. One section of Telephone needs some boots on the ground to wear down the grass. The manzanita along the Telephone Trail are in full bloom. The buzz of busy bees is thick in that area.
I used HAZ Tracks on my iPhone 5 in airplane mode. I made it through the hike without having to charge the phone (a first for me - I had 31% battery at the end). The stats on this triplog are from the Garmin, but I also posted the HAZ tracks for comparison. The HAZ tracks were higher on both mileage and elevation.
Didn't see a soul until I was leaving the CCC Day Use area; I saw the host outside cooking dinner. Looked like he was alone. I missed cooking for my wife on Mother's Day, but I got in a great hike on a gorgeous day in the Pinal Mountains. |
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