Subway Hike

The hike started at Wildcat Canyon Trailhead (6985') at approximately 8:30 AM on Tuesday, July 20th. We hiked with Shaun and Karen Mason, Sharon Pratchett and David Johnson. The hike was roughly 9.5 miles long and took us 8.5 hours to complete. Highlights of the trip were being “frisked” by the NPS ranger, who had second thoughts once he saw my bathing suit and Shaun looking for David's and Sharon's sunglasses, in one of the deep pools, only to find a tripod and someone elses sunglasses. We exited the canyon at the Left Fork (Subway) (4700') pullout at 5:00 PM. What a hike!

Oak Grove Trail Hike

Attempted to hike to the top of the Pine Valley Mountains, with Allison, on Friday, October 16th. The hike to the top is three miles. We began at 10:15 at an elevation of 6500' and hiked two miles to an elevation of 8500'. Running out of water and still having a mile and 1500' feet to go, we headed back down. We arrived back at the Explorer at 2:00 . We met one other hiker who was hiking from Oak Grove, over the top, and ending in Pine Valley. This is the hike Marty, Pat and I did in 2003.

Bryce Canyon

Allison and I went to Bryce Canyon during the middle of the week (Wed & Thu) for a short Fall getaway. We began our travels at Summit and followed a dirt road up through the Ashdown Wilderness area coming out at Brianhead. From their we fished Panquitch Creek before heading to Bryce for dinner at the Lodge. After dinner we watched the Bar G Wranglers perform at Ebenezer's Barn & Grill. We spent the night in a cabin and then left for Mossy Cave in the morning. We traveled home through Tropic Reservoir, to Skumptewa Road, to Johnson Canyon and then to Kanab.

Blue Lake Hike

Allison and I hiked to Blue Lake starting from the Bullion Pasture Trailhead at an elevation of 10,993 ft. We began at 11:15 AM and hiked an abandoned road, used to repair the spillway in 2007, the 2.3 miles to the lake (elevation 9755 ft). It took us approximately one hour. We spent a half hour or so wandering around the lake looking at the spillway, an old cabin and taking in the views of Mt. Baldy (12,050 ft) and Mt. Belknap (12,128 ft) which we had hiked one year earlier. It took us about 1.5 hours to hike back to the Explorer, arriving at 2:30 PM for a total round trip hike of about 5 miles.