Really, if you are one of those who can’t take the time change don’t bother traveling east or west, you might cross a time zone! We are now 3 hours different than home, and will cross those time zones on the trip back. It is usually one a day for the first two days.
We took another hike up Oak Canyon to the AZ Trail, starting out the same as we did a month ago. This time headed north after a 1 mile connector trail. This time instead of following a contour for miles we headed up a bit and then down, down, down. OK, there was some up and down but it was a lot of down. When we hot the 2.6 mile mark we had lunch and started back up. But it did not seem nearly as hard as we had expected. The grades are easy. Not just straight up like home. They slab around the hills a lot more.
Skye found a good pond for a quick dip on the way in and again out. We met a few hikers doing the whole trail from Mexico to Utah. One guy was from MT near Glacier Park and had to finish in a week so he could go start the Pacific Crest Trail in CA. The AZT is his warm-up hike! He must have a 3 season job. He came trotting down the trial and had a rather small pack. Some people travel very light.
Then another guy from VA who had started ahead of us this morning to do a section pretty much like us. And a couple from upstate NY doing the whole trail who had stopped to rest. We talked with them a while. They had fair sized packs, 20º sleeping bags, a tent etc.
We got back to camp around 3. That’s pretty early for us. A nice relaxing afternoon of reading in the rocking chair. A few other campers and bikers came by, something to watch. This pink camper they looked like a converted mini school bus came scouting around. Two young women, one with very bright hair. They walked out the road a bit and then left. Two guys on motorbikes were on the ridge above us and later went up this road by camp, wandered about for a while and came back. The lead guy on a 2 wheel bike came back to apologize for the young one on a 4 wheeler, said the kid sometimes liked to go fast and thus would make dust. I really hadn’t noticed the dust but he did and wanted to apologize for it. They’re from Benson, a small town NE of us about 45 minutes away. We’ve been through there a few
Interesting truck camper next door for a couple nights
This Ocotillo is starting to leaf out!
Odd shape for a barrel cactus
Her pond of the day
Lunch break
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