Sometimes when we're in town doing errands we bring our computer along and use the wireless network at the local library. It's faster than our air card connection through ATT&T, especially when I'm uploading pictures to update our blog.
Yesterday we hiked across Alcoholic
Pass. It's a 3 1/2 mile hike with an altitude gain of 1670 feet. In order to not have to backtrack the same trail, we coordinated with Jim and Lynn, another Boomer couple. We took our vehicle to one side of the pass and hiked south to north. They went to the other end and hiked north to south.
The trail started on our end through a richly divergent natural cactus garden.
We reached to top in about 45 minutes from our end. The elevation gain is steep from this side. You climb the 1670 feet in about 1 mile. Going down the other side took us longer.
We met Jim and Lynn on the way down and stopped together to have lunch. The reason we took two vehicles is that even though the trail is short, the drive from one trail head to the other is about 18 miles and most of it is over 4 wheel drive type roads. It took us 45 minutes to drive from the trail head the 7 miles back to our RV.
The trail down the north side is not very well defined. It mostly followed a dry wash of an old stream bed and it was marked by an occasional rock pile to let you know you were still going the right way. About half way down we came to the this arrangement of stones. Cute, but not realistic. We still had a mile to go from this point to the vehicle.
Yesterday we hiked across Alcoholic
Pass. It's a 3 1/2 mile hike with an altitude gain of 1670 feet. In order to not have to backtrack the same trail, we coordinated with Jim and Lynn, another Boomer couple. We took our vehicle to one side of the pass and hiked south to north. They went to the other end and hiked north to south. 
The trail started on our end through a richly divergent natural cactus garden. 
We reached to top in about 45 minutes from our end. The elevation gain is steep from this side. You climb the 1670 feet in about 1 mile. Going down the other side took us longer.
We met Jim and Lynn on the way down and stopped together to have lunch. The reason we took two vehicles is that even though the trail is short, the drive from one trail head to the other is about 18 miles and most of it is over 4 wheel drive type roads. It took us 45 minutes to drive from the trail head the 7 miles back to our RV.
The trail down the north side is not very well defined. It mostly followed a dry wash of an old stream bed and it was marked by an occasional rock pile to let you know you were still going the right way. About half way down we came to the this arrangement of stones. Cute, but not realistic. We still had a mile to go from this point to the vehicle.
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