Friday, 5/2, we hiked South Mountain (SM) again. This has been probably the hardest trail so far due to its 1,200 feet elevation gain and distance...by the time we were done we hiked around 9 miles. Access to the TH was closed so we had to park a bit further down the road which increased our hike by at least 1 - 1.5 miles. The trail is located in the Ma Ha Tuak Range within SM. We did not see not one soul out there (probably not as crazy as us). It sure was pretty up there though. First we had to cover a number of switch-backs going up the south side of the mountain and then hiked along the south side. Eventually we crossed over to the north side of the mountain and had a fabulous view of city. We proceeded to hike along the north side and then encountered a few other switch-backs which took us back to the south side. Once on the south side, we began to descend, and the rest was fairly flat, but looooooooooong, very looooooooong. We had a new hiking buddy today, Traci, Grover's friend from Michigan. We were all pretty whooped by the time we were done. Actually, who am I kidding, we were whooped before, but we had to keep going to get to the car. And, YES, well felt very proud...VERY, VERY PROUD!!!
Then we headed over to Tempe to try some vegetarian food at the Green Restaurant. It was very tasty...
Forgot my camera, so no pictures this time. Although, I did take some with my phone camera, but they didn't come out very good.
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