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| Run/Jog | 14.82 Miles |
1,641 AEG |
| | Run/Jog | 14.82 Miles | 3 Hrs 9 Mns | | 4.70 mph |
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| no partners | | Finally decided to continue my AZT project, after a "fun" experience on Passage 11 a year ago, and the Bighorn Fire (Oracle Ridge is now open). Originally, I didn't think a shuttle would be possible, so I was going to do it as a 30 mile out and back. But I got someone to go along, and he decided that he'd rather do the shuttle than run up the mountain, even though the shuttle wouldn't save any time.
After four hours of driving to Oracle, dropping off a car, and then the two hour drive around the mountain to Summerhaven, we got a 12:30pm start with comfortably cold temps. Skipped the ONB between the gate and Marshall Gulch, since I had to do that part last year anyways, so it counts. Jog through town was uneventful.
Once on the ridge, the devastation from the fire became more obvious. Did some trail work near Dan Saddle a couple years ago, seems like a waste now! Oracle Ridge is scorched, and CDO is scorched. There are some patches of green remaining at the bottom of the canyon, so it's possible that Catalina Camp survived.
Past Rice Peak, the burn seemed less severe, and there was even a stretch that was completely unburned.
Was glad when we got to the car, after all the pounding on the legs. Managed to get back to Summerhaven just in time to catch the post-sunset traffic on the way back down. |
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