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Black Mesa Loop – a sample of the interior
My first hike of 2012, yesterday (Jan 6) we did the Black Mesa Loop route, a distance of just over 9 miles. This isn’t what you’d term an easy hike (because of the length) but there are no serious physical … Continue reading
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We Found the Lost Gold Mine…….
……but the gubbermint wouldn’t allow us to enter. Today we hiked the route from the Hieroglyphics trailhead across the southern base of the western superstitions over to the Lost Gold Mine trailhead near the mouth of Peralta canyon. This is a … Continue reading
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Picket Post Mountain, or ……
.…what some people won’t do to save a dollar! For you “back home folks” who are reading this, Picketpost Mountain is a photogenic formation, which towers about 2,000 feet above the desert west of Superior like a natural fortress, its distinctive, … Continue reading
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Peralta Canyon to Fremont Saddle
Today (Nov 25th, 2011) the club hiked the Peralta trail up to Fremont Saddle. This is one of my favorite hikes, and today we added a little “extra” at the top. This is a pretty strenuous hike, with over 1,400 … Continue reading
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>Ballantine Trail
>Today, 3/25/11, a small group of us hiked Ballantine Trail. More correctly we hiked Pine Creek Loop (see description at http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=90 ) interrupted by a jaunt about 2 miles out and 2 miles back on Ballantine Trail (see description at http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=248 ). When … Continue reading
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>Hiking Arizona
>My son Art knows a lot of cool crap about electrical computing machines, and suggested that I post some of my hiking and travel adventures on a blog. He has a lot of scatterbrained ideas like that, but I’ll humor … Continue reading
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Wandering About With No Supervision 