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04-09-2019, 02:57 PM | #1 |
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Desert hiking photos
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04-09-2019, 03:03 PM | #2 |
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I have been doing a lot of hiking lately...Im trying to get into good shape before the very hot temps come back...These photos are from 2 different hikes i did ..As you can see the desert is very green and lush from a unusually wet and cold winter. I normally do 8 miles on the cross country hike which consists of following a 18" wide dirt path that winds up and over rolling hills...it definitely gets my heart beating and i can feel the health benefit...Very peaceful and tranquil out there for sure....I started at 6:30 this am and it took me over 3 hours to finish....im beat. This AM i saw a pack of mule deer and a few jack rabbits. |
04-09-2019, 03:32 PM | #3 |
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Nice, Buzz! That one picture looks like a rain squall, off in the distance, or is that sunbeams poking through the clouds??
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04-09-2019, 03:33 PM | #4 |
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The bottom photo is the parking lot to the trail head. CZubek, Yes...That is exactly what that was...I got soaked that day..stuck out in the middle of one of those crazy isolated rain storms. |
04-09-2019, 03:48 PM | #5 |
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They do come down fast, but you dry really fast in the desert, too.
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04-09-2019, 06:06 PM | #7 |
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Catch (shoot) any Rattle snakes?
There arent any where Ive been hiking lately.... But since I got two new eye ball lenses and can see real clear now ,,,, I feel like walking through some rattle snake areas. If I go up the hill to the southwest plateau in the mourning there are a lot of huge red rattlers along the road early AM
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04-09-2019, 07:12 PM | #8 | |
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I get a much better workout hiking up and down hills and over long distances than i do mountain bike riding....I still like riding the bike to go out into the desert to shoot pistols but the results i get for the effort i exert are disappointing. I have an App on my phone that keeps track of steps walked, distance covered, calories burned and elevation changes.....It is not accurate measuring the distance i hike up and down hills because the GPS does not take into account the undulation distance...Just the distance as the crow flies...I get a more accurate distance gauge from steps walked....The GPS distance and my steps walked distance can differ as much as a mile because of this. |
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04-09-2019, 09:42 PM | #9 |
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Nice snake, Better cut his head off...... Did he crawl away after he was dead... They crawl away after I blow their heads off with a shotgun and bring them home to skin
I started running again laps around my property after get home from a I hike with my dog. Got to be careful not to pull a muscle again or go easy if my "dirt bike knee" tendon starts hurting. Tore a calf muscle real bad a few years ago and had to stop running for over a year... I had to not exercise for a week after my eye surgeries. I can start up again in a few days Lots about 5 Lbs that I gained over winter |
04-09-2019, 10:56 PM | #10 | |
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That one had 9 rattles so i cut them off......First I clocked him in the head with the 2x4 . |
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04-09-2019, 11:15 PM | #11 |
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Great pictures buz I am studying them to see if John Wayne is in the background.
Those cactus are cool just like yah see in the movies.
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04-09-2019, 11:31 PM | #12 |
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Yesterday i visited what is left of the Apache Land movie ranch western town set in Gold Canyon where John Wayne made some films...Also many episodes of Death Valley days were filmed there..It burned down about 20 years ago....cool place still!
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04-10-2019, 08:48 AM | #13 |
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I spent my youth hiking the desert down south of you.
Got caught in some rainstorms - one real bad gullywasher. Had to find a bush to crawl up into and shared it with an owl that must have lived in it. Visibility in that storm was about 5 ft.
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04-10-2019, 01:35 PM | #14 | |
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People from the midwest have a hard time appreciating just how hard it can rain out here.....I have been caught in a bad rainstorm just once......I was hiking in oak creek canyon in the summer and i just climbed to the high ground and went into a cave and rhode it out. |
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