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| HAZ Member AZHiker456's 154 Photosets 2016-12-26 2016-12-26 2016-12-25 2016-12-24 2016-12-23 2016-12-23 2016-12-14 2016-12-10 2016-12-08 2016-12-03 2016-11-27 2016-11-25 2016-11-24 2016-11-20 2016-10-16 2016-10-13 2016-10-09 2016-10-08 2016-10-08 2016-10-06
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high ankle twisting potential]. Since part of this segment was a repeat for me from a few months back en route to Kunde Mountain, I had hoped to kick the pace in to high gear, but my mile splits would not budge below the 23-25 minute range, [even on the return trip when I found myself racing the setting sun]. Ironically, I had a much easier time, [and probably went much faster] during the mile or so of bushwhacking from the base of Candelerio Peak back to the Arizona Trail. While I split just over 48 minutes/mile for this segment, the time includes an immediate stop once I reconnected with the Arizona Trail to do some MAJOR de-weeding, [at least 10 minutes per sock], plus another several minutes to find my tweezers and do a layer change. Although there wasn’t much thorny vegetation, the bushwhack involved traversing through several areas of thick grass; and the killer was having to slip under a barbed wire fence in an area that was filled with some of the most clingy types of weeds that Southern Arizona has to offer… second to none in terms of most annoying to remove, aside from possibly the good old “Velcro weeds.”
