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| no partners | | Has anyone ever heard of sitting disease? Well apparently it affects anyone who sits for extended periods of time. Well that is what has happened to me in the last few years. So I have a goal. I'm doing a three day two night hike thru Aravaipa this Sept, and I need to get my hiking legs back. And my job has me tied to a desk for nearly 10 hours a day, so I'm combatting this new sitting disease thing. Life has gotten in the way, but I'm back!
I left home, headed north a little ways to where Old Camp Grant Place meets Hwy 77. There I turned the general direction the Enchantment trail comes to the highway from the San Pedro. I walked down the old PZ Ranch Road then cut across and down into the San Pedro river bed. From there I turned south, walking the river bed back to the private property road (dirt track) we use when we access the river bottom to take our buggy rides. That road joins Putnam Road, another private drive for the folks that live here. From Putnam Road, back to the 77, back to the house. Took about 2 1/2 hours, some sand walking, some bush whacking on the river bottom, some beautiful scenery, and my legs are now jellow. I'm guessing about a 3 mile loop from start to finish, but who's counting. I'm back and it feels great!
On a side note, I decided to take this loop back in January, just to try getting my legs back under me again. I got part way out there, where I cut down to the river. At this point, I'm probably a mile from the nearest house and probably 50 yards off the PZ Ranch road. I heard a noise, thought it was rabbits. I had been seeing cotton tails all over the place. But then something brushed my leg. I looked down and there was a puppy staring back up at me. He was approx. 3 mos old, had a big chunk of cactus in his foot, and was whimpering. I picked him up and took the cactus from his foot, at the same time looking around to see if he was alone. Low and behold, there's another puppy looking at me from behind a tree a few feet away. I put little boy down, and walked over to the second puppy. She tried to run, but she too was full of cactus and couldn't. Needless to say, these two cut my hike short, After I cleaned all of the cactus off of her, I turned right around and headed to the house with them. I tried to find the owners, but no one around here knew where they came from. I know just as sure as I'm sitting here, someone dumped them. They did not look like they had walked to where they were, nor were they out there that long. It only took me 5 days to find them a home. If I ever find out who did that to them, I'd like to take them out on the desert with no shoes or water and leave them. Something told me to walk that day, first time in over 2 years I had walked out there. |
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