AZT this time of year?

imported
#1

Thinking of hiking from Tucson north to Flagstaff in May. Is this a crazy idea? How hot will it be???

Desert Turtle

#2

i was just out there and temps were all ready cresting 105 im pretty sure in may it will be 90 to 120 .no problem as long as you cover because there isn’t a lot of shade

RESTSTOP

#3

start hiking early as possible so you get most of your mileage done in the morning. take a long long siesta &
finish up in the late evening. this worked for the pct mojave, but also for the Death Valley on July 4th weekend when I met a german out of Las Vegas cycling the same as me… we cycled at night & hung out at a motel pool during the day as it was too hot to sleep in a tent, even in the shade. Germans & Japanese are the most adventurous folks outside of Britain & Scandinvia of course. If you have to hike in the hot, I hope you can wet down your hair & clothes which act as kind of air conditioning for a while at least!

gingerbreadman

#4

Hi. I’m interested in hiking the last portion of the AZT trail from North Rim of Grand Canyon to the Utah border around June 6th or 7th of this year…am writing you to ask if you knew of any reliable water sources for the Buckskin part of the trail from Jacob Lake to the Stateline Campground? If you know of any info about this, i’d greatly appreciate it because i don’t have any way of caching any water in this part of the trail and i was told that there was no water at Stateline Campground. Please feel free to email me back on the subject if you would.

Thank you for your time,
Jill

Jill Bommarito

#5

was dry when I was there last year. They were doing some major renovations at that time but I didn’t see any signs of a water system. The road that goes past Stateline is well-traveld. I’m sure you could flag-down a car to get some water.

bowlegs

#6

Also, at the Wire Pass TH a couple of road miles north into Utah you’ll likely see plenty of hikers with extra water. I was there exactly the same time last year and there were plenty of vehicles including a ranger. There was also a water trailer for the renovation work at Stateline but that’s certainly gone by now.

I just carried lots of water from Jacob Lake. I didn’t look anywhere off trail for other sources. They didn’t sound very promising.

BTW, I could not get a small sedan more than a couple of miles down the road to Stateline–it was in bad shape last year. But that gave me the opportunity to hike out via Buckskin Gulch from the Wire Pass TH and it was a fine hike. So I had to carry extra water from Jacob Lake for that hike (an extra eight miles or so), but it was unneeded because of all the traffic at the road.

Garlic