Soul, Sweat, and Survival in the Superstitions

Lizard · Post by **Lizard** » Sep 17 2002 12:13 am

I'm working right now on a webpage with stories and photos from some of my favorite hiking trips. The page is far from complete, but I've finished one story that I'm pretty proud of. It details the four-day backpacking trip I took last December, across the length of the Superstitions. A lot happened on that hiking trip that I've never shared with HAZ before. I think you'll enjoy it.

http://www.geocities.com/mystery1423/Superstition.html

The spacing of elements on the page is a little screwed up (Yahoo's PageBuilder kinda sucks), but the story itself is complete.

Lizard

Wiz · Post by **Wiz** » Sep 17 2002 6:08 am

VERY nice writeup, Lizard! Thanks for sharing it.

snow22_5150 · Post by **snow22_5150** » Sep 17 2002 10:17 am

What an adventure! I would love to have time to do that! Great story!

evenstarx3 · Post by **evenstarx3** » Sep 17 2002 1:17 pm

Great adventure, Lizard; thanks for sharing it with us!

ck_1 · Post by **ck_1** » Sep 17 2002 9:50 pm

Bravo! Great Story!

GTG_AZH · Post by **GTG_AZH** » Sep 17 2002 10:07 pm

I hope to someday soon tell my story of trekking for days across the Superstitions. Hopefully without the cow characters. I already have a good cow story.
Great job Lizard.

GTG

GeorgAZ · Post by **GeorgAZ** » Sep 17 2002 10:12 pm

Lizard,that was Awesome!Thanks! I don't have the guts (or any other body parts) to do that!Glad you made it outa there! What a grand adventure!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sep 17 2002 10:12 pm

Nice job, Lizard! Thanks for sharing it with us!!

kurthzone · Post by **kurthzone** » Sep 18 2002 8:20 am

Enjoyed the reading and loved the black and blue. Write on dude!

nealz · Post by **nealz** » Sep 18 2002 9:52 am

Very nice indeed Lizard. I've been on that part of Coffee Flat at you're right, it is really overgrown and difficult to follow. I've also thought about a trans Supes trip and your story has given me some good ideas. Keep it up.

-Nealz

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Sep 18 2002 2:55 pm

Great read Lizard:

You probably lost the Coffee Flat trail just before the quicksand.....yep there's a nasty patch -in wet times-in the bottom about halfway between Dripping Spring and the dutchman junction at the base of Miners' Needle.

Funny thing about trails....we all miss a section from time to time. Dunno if its the light, the wool gathering or what. I've walked Frog Springs about four times--LOVE that trail-- and never lost an inch. But, when I read your description of your Club Cabin Hike, I wondered how in heck you found the section of Deadman Trail north of the Main Fork of Deadman Creek. We lost it big time. but failed to go far enough downstream to find that jog you described. So weird to see the gate and cairn and then, ZAP! nada....As you know, it shows up again on the ridge south of Mountain Spring.

Maybe sometimes they just hide from us, eh? -Randy

Lizard · Post by **Lizard** » Sep 18 2002 3:06 pm

Randy wrote:Funny thing about trails....we all miss a section from time to time. Dunno if its the light, the wool gathering or what. I've walked Frog Springs about four times--LOVE that trail-- and never lost an inch. But, when I read your description of your Club Cabin Hike, I wondered how in heck you found the section of Deadman Trail north of the Main Fork of Deadman Creek. We lost it big time. but failed to go far enough downstream to find that jog you described. So weird to see the gate and cairn and then, ZAP! nada....As you know, it shows up again on the ridge south of Mountain Spring.

Actually, I was smart/lucky enough to be carrying David Mazel's Southern Arizona Trails with me at the time. It describes the Deadman Trail in enough detail that I was able to relate it to what was going on on the ground. (Unlike Bruce Grubb's Mazatzal book, which is so vague its practically useless IMO.) If I hadn't had that book I would most like have gotten lost, too.

BTW, I totally agree with your assessment of the Frog Tanks trail. It is a GREAT hike.

Lizard

Soul, Sweat, and Survival in the Superstitions

Soul, Sweat, and Survival in the Superstitions

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