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I'm sitting on my lazy gimpy butt right now with not much else to do but DREAM about hiking so I've set myself up with a glorious plan.

January 1st is a Tuesday, and we all know how much I love hiking late on weekdays

After work on this fateful Tuesday I'll set out for the Supes and galavant to the top of Flat Iron to ring in the New Year, hopefully watch the sun set and the barely less than Full Moon rise and to celebrate the restored strength of my right foot.
What better way than a short, leisurely stroll up Flat Iron?!

I do hope you'll join me, I can't imagine the trail will have many people on it...on a Tuesday afternoon/evening/night...plus this little Hippy shouldn't hike the Supes alone...I might never come back to the city.

Edit: Green type! :whistle:

What time are you leaving?

sorry... I'll be nursing a hangover at work that day.

I'll throw this on the calender with Pam's Vulture Peak trip. Time will tell.

@Tough_Boots I'm almost positive I'll be working at 5am on New Years Day... so I probably can't party too late....but to answer Vince's question, if I work as early as I've requested to work that day I plan on leaving Phoenix between 2 and 4pm, depending also, of course, on those who occupy the vehicle with me or plan on meeting me at the TH.

well im off that day but i normaly do picket post on the first but i should be done by 4 so if i still have energy i may try to do fltiorn too

man it up DB! Doooo it!!!

this all also depends on me not hurting my self on picket post out of my 4 trips 2 have ended not so good for me :stretch:

waaaaait wait wait...you roll your ankle and you're hiking again this month, it's only been like a week for you boy, you better wrap that up if you go out...at least I have my mutli million dollar ankle brace to keep me standing straight
don't hurt yourself otherwise I'll be doing flat iron alone, I doubt anyone will be crazy enough to join me that day

and yes this is all depending on the ankel i went to pinnical peak yesterday and that wasnt a good idea

The Hippy wrote:I doubt anyone will be crazy enough to join me that day

Don't you overestimate my sanity.

bad idea DB!!! Why don't you chill out for a while, pull a gimpy hippy card and start drinking away your lack-of-hiking depression ;)
Patrick, hope you join us!!!

trust me hippy i have been and my pocket book and sanity cant take it anymore

awww DB, ok you can pull the other gimpy hippy card and eat yourself out of a no-hiking depression.
Seriously though....you, me, a HUGE bowl of coconut ice cream and dark chocolate covered raisins...MMmmmm

Okay back to reality. I'm planning on getting atop Flatiron and watching the sunset, i think the first sun set of 2013 should be viewed from somewhere you love and I happen to love flatiron lately, maybe because it's a crotchity old hike, maybe because i finally got to plan with a tarantula this year up there, maybe because i tore up that trail like it was nobody's business last time...

The Hippy wrote:waaaaait wait wait...you roll your ankle and you're hiking again this month, it's only been like a week for you boy,

and no i waited 2 1/2 weeks and for most the swelling to go down befor i went for a hike

My knees can't handle the flat iron. But I may be on the Coffee Flats early Tues Morn. What a way to start the New Year, no hangover, just a hike.

DBmooner wrote:and no i waited 2 1/2 weeks and for most the swelling to go down befor i went for a hike

like I should talk, I rocked 25 miles 5 days later we rock at being gimps. oh wait, i'm healed up, i can hike again!! cannot wait to tackle flatiron again, love it!

The Hippy wrote:

DBmooner wrote:and no i waited 2 1/2 weeks and for most the swelling to go down befor i went for a hike

like I should talk, I rocked 25 miles 5 days later we rock at being gimps. oh wait, i'm healed up, i can hike again!! cannot wait to tackle flatiron again, love it!

Till next weeks injury.

Funny I was just thinking that last night... early september was the tailgate, early october was the knee, early november was the ankle...it's already Mid-december I think i'm safe... right?