Things did not go well - Backpacking the Fred Haught Trail
Tina and I decided to slow things down a bit due to some recent setbacks; we drove to the White Mountains to backpack. Zero percent chance of rain and it poured all day. We drove to Utah to do a much larger backpacking trip and Tina didn't feel good. We figured it would be stupid to start a backpacking trip with her ill, so we ended up driving home without really hiking much of anything.
On top of this, I currently have a pretty debilitating shoulder injury. I'm fairly sure it's from sleeping on my shoulder, but that doesn't sound very badass. We'll just say it was from picking up a car off of a pedestrian or pulling a dog out of a house fire. Something like that. I'm not old, you're old.
Whatever happened, it hurts. We have some big trips coming up so we decided to do a mellow hike called The Fred Haught Trail as a test. If you don't know the Fred Haught Trail, it's one of several - Barbershop, Houston Brothers & U Bar - that form the Cabin Loop Trail system up on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. You can put together several different routes to backpack on this system of trails, so I did just that. Naturally, I came up with one of the more logistically challenging routes since a car shuttle was needed - but it worked. It also got us out on part of the Arizona Trail, which I haven't hiked much of. So that seemed like a good plan.
Things started wonderfully with sprinkling rain (again, zero percent chance) and went downhill from there. But we made it and the Fred Haught Trail was absolutely stunning, so I'm not going to complain much. That's a lie, but at least I won't be complaining to you, so you're all good there.
And yes, I actually thought that homemade filter was going to work. You seriously have no idea how many times I've yelled at people on Naked and Afraid about making a rock, sand and charcoal filter. An unhealthy amount of times, actually...I guess survival is harder than it looks from my couch. (I do need to upgrade to a mechanical filtration device. The All Clear is too limiting when it comes to silty water sources.)
Anyway, if you haven't hiked the Cabin Loop Trails, go check them out. You won't be disappointed.
Just watch your step.
Music by Artlist:
Minuet II - Ardie Son
Kinderszenen Op 15 No 1 - Bishara Haroni (I'm not spell checking that)
In My Bones - Chris Aumen
The Summit - Sebastian Pangal
Dandelion Wine - Claire Kelly
Music by Epidemic Sound
Escucha Mi Salsa - Son Habana
30 сен 2023
