Bear Mountain Trail #54 Photoset • afrankie • 2016-03-11 • HikeArizona.COM

Bear Mountain Trail #54, AZ

	2016-03-11
	13 by afrankie

Bear Mountain Trail #54

Sedona, AZ

Bear Mountain Trail #54

Sedona, AZ

Hiking	5.82 Miles	2,362 AEG

Hiking	5.82 Miles	4 Hrs 9 Mns	2.07 mph
	2,362 ft AEG	1 Hour 20 Mns Break

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The sun burned through an overcast morning in Sedona by the time we were finished with this one. I was hiking with my wife and her two friends who were in town for the week. The hike had a different vibe as we marched up breaking periodically at much slower pace than my wife and I usually keep. Our two friends had tired legs from a river and back Grand Canyon backpack a few days earlier, and may have been hazy in the head from the last few nights of celebrating :lol:

. The pace didn’t bug me even as I was amped to scale this thing, but I gotta tell you the intermittent posing for photos/snaps/instagrams or whatever the social media dejour at the time was killing me inside. Arranging for the satisfaction of three women with a photo is way more difficult than mountain climbing…Alas, I digress as this is already far off course than needed for a triplog.

We took an extended break just before the final climb, about a quarter from the peak, and it offered the best vantage point of the day facing red rock to the east. The peak was mentally fulfilling although the vegetation inhibits the epic views that I was expecting after that much gain. The views 3/4 way up were still among the best I'd experienced in Sedona - and I enjoyed spotting Jerome to the west.

We quickly descended in better spirits and ready for fuel to gear up for the afternoon hike…more on that later :lol:

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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Evan Hardin

Footloose adventures are documented instagram @afrankie8.

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