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| no partners | | .. "Groundhog Day" Revisited ..
This planned revisit was six months in the making with longtime friends from Southern California (the San Diego area), whom I introduced to each other over 26+ years ago and have been happily married since, and are enjoying fulltime hiking, Eastern Sierra backpacking, vehicle camping, and Mammoth CA winter Skiing in their now retirement.
We were within two days of their AZ arrival on Mon-8/22 for our planned Mogollon Rim week Vehicle Camping and Hiking trip when I had to "pull the plug" on our trip due to Mother Nature not cooperating  (the NWS daily point forecast for my favorite Mogollon Rim campsite was showing a total washout for the entire period of our planned stay).
I did not want to risk a Labor Day Week reschedule and visit with my Southern CA friends so we will hopefully plan our get together another year. I on the other hand, needed to "Get Out of Dodge" again and was willing to risk the possible Labor Day week craziness with possible more monsoon rain. I (alone) planned my trip arrival two days prior-to the start of the busy Labor Day long weekend and I planned my exit back home two days after the Labor Day Monday. This worked well but the evening before my campsite arrival when I normally buy 50#s of ice for my 70 quart cooler, I could not find any 10# blocks of ice available  .. this would be a big problem for my planned eight day stay!
To make a long story short, I ended-up buying an additional 3 bags (24#s) of cubed ice and managed to stuff in my already overloaded 4Runner, another cooler to hold this additional ice.  On my departure home, day 8, I ended up needing to stop in Payson for an additional 10#s of ice to get me home. I spent almost as much money on ice as I did for gas on this trip! 
My actual 8 day visit
I had another wonderful time doing mostly nothing but R&R - Eating, with only two short area day hikes, with no rain at all, and with daily temp highs 82-86 and lows 49-56  |
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