Category: Trip Journal

• AZT 2020 Day 2, March 10, Tuesday
• Start 1 mile north of Miller Peak (passage1mile7)
• End Middle Canyon mile 31 (passage2mile10)
• Miles walked: 24

Descending the Huachaca Mountains, I meet “Bruise”, Vince, and “Lucy Lulu”.

Farewell to the vistas from the Huachacas, as we follow Parker Canyon down to the Canelo Hills, to 5k elevation.

We pass several streams, pools, and one lake, and the ground is often wet from a recent rain. Vegetation turns to pine forest, and then mixed conifer shrubs and mountain mahogany.

I meet “Butterfy” in the afternoon, a lot faster than me, but we end up camping near each other as the day ends early with rain, that continues through most of the night.

• AZT 2020 Day 1, March 9, Monday
• Start Coronado National Monument at Mexico border, mile 0 (passage1mile0)
• End 1 mile north of Miller Peak (passage1mile7)
• Trail miles walked: 7

Trail angel Scott (“Train” AT2012 AZT2017) picks me up at Tuscon Airport and we stop on the way to the trailhead for burritos in Sierra Vista. It is a tradition he has with hikers, and he says that hikers that skip the burrito tend to not finish the trail.

He drops me off at the visitor’s center to Coronado National Monument, and I walk 4 miles to the border marker to start the trail

Continue reading “Take the Burrito”

With one long trail completed each year since 2012, the next trip is the Arizona Trail, 800 miles from the Mexico border to Utah border. Since the southern section is so hot, hikers start rather early in the year for northbound trips, typically March.

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