A trail life series
That’s it! Finito! Stateline Arizona/Utah reached on April 21st around noon. Though I am happy to be there it doesn’t feel as magical as the end of the PCT, not as epic or life-changing. Which is good haha, cause that much of an excitement is exhausting. Besides the fact there is no nicely looking northern…
Yes, you did read it right, Grand Canyon Village. That’s where the Arizona Trail leads to and not only to but also through the Grand Canyon whouhou. Just ~100 Miles north of Flagstaff the ground all of a sudden drops about 5000 feet the before rushing Colorado River.
The first day of hiking after 3 zero days was pretty tough. My backpack didn’t fit me right, my legs hurt, shoulders hurt, back hurt…Everything was kinda meh. So you see even if you’re blessed with the best experiences, sometimes it’s hard to appreciate it even if you want to. Sometimes you just gotta complain…
Oh man, that was steep. After another day of hail at Roosevelt Lake, we climbed up and into the Four Peaks Wilderness, up and up and up all day long. At least after all that rain and hail, we knew water won’t be too much of an issue in the upcoming section.
We reached Kearny right in time for the Pioneer days on the weekend. The hotel there was fully booked but they had a grill-out and offered us rides to the RV park to shower. More or less clean we went on the fair and soaked in all these colorful lights and noises. I ate a…
After taking a last break at the High Jinks Ranch to fill up water and to check out the historical site, Marney of the Chalet Village Motel picked us up at the American Flag Trailhead. Summerhaven out to Oracle the terrain was extremely rugged again with lots of crazy steep downhill.
Vail was only a 6-mile hike out from our last camp. The expected package though hasn’t arrived at the post office yet so we spent another night in Tucson, running errands and resupply.
We finally hiked out after a good day of rest in the backyard of ‘Trackmeats’ Uncle and Aunt in Patagonia. The day before we resupplied in the Red Mountain Market, a reasonably priced whole food market in Patagonia. Stocked with healthy food we started climbing up into Coronado National Forest and down to beautiful little…
Saturday morning the 4th of March we headed out towards Utah over 800 miles along the Arizona Trail. Soda’s mom was trail angeling the last couple of days, housing us, and driving us around for our resupply for the trail. This morning she and a friend drove us out all the way from Tuscon to…