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| Hiking | 6.32 Miles |
1,458 AEG |
| | Hiking | 6.32 Miles | 2 Hrs 44 Mns | | 2.40 mph |
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| no partners | | My day started out with Harlow proudly bringing a freshly dead baby bunny into my house. After the screaming was over, and the dog was sad, I decided to go for a short hike.
Saw a park ranger riding a mountain bike near the Gila-Prospector junction. Up Lost Ranch Mine, then over to Goat Hill, the same as my weekend hike. The air was clearer, but less breeze. I was only on Goat Hill for a second because two tarantula hawks were flying around. Seems like it’s always either them or gnats.
Retraced my steps back down. Saw one patch nosed snake along National. Just after turning onto Lost Ranch Mine, I saw a coral snake. Got three pics before it disappeared. I wasn’t certain it was really a coral snake, but Chumley said it was, then a retired reptile curator from the LA Zoo told me it was. Cool to see on SoMo. What’s kind of interesting is, about ten years ago, Wyatt saw a similar looking snake near Lost Ranch. I didn’t see that one, so cannot say what order the color of the bands were, but my friend from the zoo said it’s very possible there’s a small population of coral snakes in the drainage of the Lost trails.
Good workout. I wish LRM had a little less loose rock, because I would prefer this over Pyramid as my early morning summer workout hike when I’m forced to be in AZ. |
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After that we went down to the rock house and did the Mormon Loop. On the way back we took Pima road to Beverly and over to Desert Classic and back to car for a 6 miler. It was warming up but we were off the mountain by 8:30ish. Trail was in usual shape. Nice to get a south Mountain hike in and catch up with Linda while she is visiting AZ.! 
