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| no partners | | Lori and I are finally getting back onto an actual trail after quite a long time of doing nothing but occasionally walking the loop around McCormick Ranch. Life takes over and next thing you know, there is HAZ telling you that your last hike was 1.4 years ago! Taunting you, really. In a good way.
Woke up at 4:15am, hoping to get some early light in Flagstaff, but didn't actually leave the house until closer to 6am I think. I don't really feel like i'm out of "the city" until I gas-up at the Chevron at I-17 and Carefree Hwy.
Got to the trailhead about 8:30/9ish. Quite a few vehicles at the TH, many of them with bike racks but not too many people on the trail. Coolish temps with a light breeze, a few light clouds whipping by very quickly, but evaporating just as quick.
The trail is beautiful of course, well used and maintained. The very slight constant uphill grade was giving our atrophied leg muscles a workout. We stayed on the main trail thru the two big aspen groves, but decided to turn around at the first big clearing. Coming back down we passed a trio of llamas going up!! Llamas!! I vagually remember reading some Arizona history about how llamas were the pack animal of choice when building the Apache Trail, but I could be wrong.
Ate our lunch of sourdough baguette and port wine cheese at the TH and then drove up FR420 to Lockett Meadow. Amazing color up at Lockett! Very crowded up there and saw two people with big-ole box cameras and one more with a 4x5. Very pretty area, I look forward to going back and hiking the Inner Basin Trail someday.
Every time I pass thru Flag at dinner time I've got to make a stop at Beaver Street Brewery. I just love their cream cheese + pesto appetizer! I have a horrible post-hike habit of consuming at least 3 times the calories I just burned earlier in the day. Sigh.
It was nice to get back into our boots, we can't wait for next weekend and another trail! |
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