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| no partners | | It was a rainy weekend but we have had this planned for a while and decided to go for it.Started at Freeman Road early Saturday and it was pretty easy going on a well groomed trail. The rain started about 11 am and included lightening (which we could have done without), but that also brought about rainbows and other magical moments not always seen on the trail. We came prepared with rain gear (love my Packa!) and got to just past 17 miles or so before we decided to stop for the night. We had to wait out more rain with lightening before there was a brief pause enough to get our tents up and everything inside before it started up again.
Rained most of the night and kept us in our tents much later in the morning than we wanted, but we finally decided to just make a break for it since the storm was not going to let up. Sunday we hiked up "The Big Hill" in the fog and rain. I was sorry that we couldn't see the views that I'm sure were awesome, but we just pretended we were on the ocean coast (the wind made it sound like the ocean below us) despite the cactus everywhere. The fog and mist started to clear up just a little as we were coming down toward the river, but it continued to rain on us all day.
The rain made the return drive on the dirt roads VERY stressful. We almost decided to stay the night again at Freemean when we got back to my car that we left there on Saturday, but the forecast called for more rain so we just took the chance and headed back out the 19 miles on Freeman to get to 79, and with lots of slipping and sliding we made it back to pavement and made the drive back to Scottsdale for Jamie, and Prescott for me.
There was public water in the caches on Freeman and Florence-Kelvin trail heads, and because of the rain there was water along the way as well, but we carried all we needed so did not really pay too much attention to other sources. |
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