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| Hiking | 11.30 Miles |
1,644 AEG |
| | Hiking | 11.30 Miles | 6 Hrs 30 Mns | | 1.83 mph |
| 1,644 ft AEG | 20 Mns Break | 20 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | It was a nice, beautiful day that turned out at the end to be really tough at the end. We started out with plans to do the full 50-Year/Baby Jesus loop, but my wife's knee started giving her pain, and new boots that she hoped she had broken in after wearing them all day the day before she discovered were not a good fit. We started off of Golder Ranch and did the loop clockwise. When we were about halfway down Baby Jesus, we decided to go off-trail toward Hohokam Hill and try to see the petroglyphs that Mountain_Rat has documented. There was quite a bit of bush to whack through, taking us longer and being more of an indirect route than expected. We did make it and we also checked two other peaks nearby scouring for petroglyphs but found nothing on any of them, and we looked pretty thoroughly, so that was disappointing and it cost us a few hours. We ended up cutting the loop short, taking the trail link west back to Baby Jesus, and then taking Golder Ranch Road back to the car as the sun had already set. All in all it was a good experience, but once again I am reminded of the unpredictability of bushwhacking!  |
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| "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau |
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