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| Hiking | 10.28 Miles |
2,239 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.28 Miles | 4 Hrs 18 Mns | | 2.62 mph |
| 2,239 ft AEG | 23 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Started out heading towards Eliminator. I know that the base of the hill is over a mile from the Bursera trailhead, but Route Scout didn't announce my one-mile time. I unlocked my phone and Route Scout immediately announced a mile time which was the time I'd been hiking and was more than a mile. Apparently, Route Scout had stopped recording for a bunch of time right after starting. This only started happening recently and I'm going to have to figure out what phone settings I changed to cause this. I got a pretty good clue later in the hike with other phone misbehavior. Ugh!
Anyway, hiked up Eliminator and worked up a good sweat. Went east on National headed down the Ranger Trail. Somehow I have never actually hiked the Ranger Trail in all my years of hiking South Mountain. I like the Ranger Trail. It steadily climbs down from the National Trail down to the bottom of the mountain with nice long switchbacks. At some point, I'll have to hike up this one, but down was very pleasant. Parts of the trail were in the shade which was nice too.
Eventually, Ranger ran into Los Lomitas Trail which took me to the bottom of Kiwanis. I had only hiked Kiwanis from top to bottom, so going the other way was another new thing for me. I had either forgotten or never noticed that most of Kiwanis is a staircase with big steps. Not crazy about that. When I finally got back up to National Trail near Telegraph Pass I sat and took a break. There was a little lizard, also taking a break, on the rock next to mine. Once I caught my breath and drank some water it was up, up, up to the Pyramid Trail. Once I got past the stone lookout there was a nice cool breeze blowing which helped a lot. The rest of the trip was uneventful.
All in all a good hike, and I now have another good loop hike to add to the rotation. |
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Saguaro are blooming |
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