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| no partners | | I'm going to be honest: this was one of the roughest trails I've ever done. We picked up Romero #8 from Mt. Lemmon #5 en route down the mountain and for the first 150 feet I was like, "Wow! What great maintenance!" Reader: I ate those words. What started as a nicely-maintained, pebbly trail turned into a nightmare of fallen frees, shin-daggers, and steep rocky trail. We got to the first campsite down from Romero Pass - and this is a primo campsite, by the by - and I realized we had a good 5+ miles left and was pretty done by then.
Continued on the South side of the canyon with little issue to Romero Pools, which were lovely in the setting light and full of bighorn sheep bleating and then the cairns which had served us so well just... disappeared. We had no idea that the #8 trail climbed back up and then down again, the sun had set, and so one sprained ankle (not me) and a panic attack (me) later, we were on the highest part of Romero #8 leaving the pools waiting for Search and Rescue to come escort us out because we had no idea we were actually still on the trail. It's pretty heartening to hear, "Man, this *is* a rough trail, isn't it?" though from the S&R people.
Goes to show - you can be well prepared and still run into crap. |
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