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| Hiking | 14.60 Miles |
4,210 AEG |
| | Hiking | 14.60 Miles | 7 Hrs 35 Mns | | 1.93 mph |
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| partners | | I did this hike with Tim, Jade Eir's friend, and now new HAZ member. The mileage for this seems to be a point of contention. For some reason, my GPS seems to add mileage on the odometer as I walk. The final mileage the odometer gave was 15.8 miles. While it certainly felt like we did that when we were done, the official mileage listed on the map is 13.5. Although, the last segment of the Super Trail from the TH to Josephine Saddle is listed on the map as 3.7 miles, but the sign at Josephine Saddle says it's 4 miles, which would then add 0.3 miles to the total. To further add to the confusion, once I save a track on the GPS, it suddenly gives me a different mileage. In this case, it told me our total mileage that day was 14.6 miles. We did take a wrong turn at Josephine Saddle and had to double back, which we estimated at 0.6 miles extra hiking. Therefore, I'm going with the 14.6 as our official mileage.
We took the Old Baldy Trail up the peak of Mt. Wrightson, which is the quickest way up, and the Super Trail down, making a true figure-8 loop. We decided that it would be best to get the uphill part out of the way ASAP, and enjoy the gradual descent. It also is nicer to do it this way since most of the Old Baldy Trail is shaded, and the views are sparse. After Josephine Saddle up to Baldy Saddle the trail narrows and is a tad overgrown in spots. At about the 8000' elevation mark, I started to run out of gas and hit a wall. I forgot to bring my trail mix bars to fuel me while I hiked, so we ended up stopping a Baldy Saddle for about 10 minutes or so while I ate one of my sandwiches and had and EmergenceC that Tim gave me. The final climb to the peak was better, but still a bit of a slog.
The views at the top were outstanding. I'm not very familiar with this area, so I barely knew what I was looking at, other than Tucson and Mt. Lemmon. After taking in the views and watching the squirrels fight over the peanuts Tim was tossing them, we headed back down.
The views on the Super Trail were also outstanding, and it gave us a glimpse of the other side of the mountain. Towards the end we saw a few deer running in the washes. The lower end of the Super Trail also seemed kind of rocky, but this may have also just seemed that way since we were on Mile 15 at that point. |
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