I’ve hiked over 2,000 miles on other trails but never encountered so many Trail Angels as in Arizona. Thanks so much to all of you and thanks to the Trail Stewards and Trail Volunteers. I really appreciate every rock cairn, Carsonite post, ribbon/flag, and saw-cut fallen tree that kept me from getting lost.
Steve “Bowlegs” Kemmerly.
P.S. I’ll be back next May or June to finish Flagstaff to Utah.
bowlegs
Bowlegs, I agree! I was right behind you at Mormon Lake, following your footprints, when they told me you were getting off at Flag. Sorry I didn’t meet you. Maybe next time. It’s a hard trail to keep open, and the ATA has been doing a great job.
Garlic
Garlic, Did you notice I got new shoes at Pine? I alternated old and new every hour to break in the new ones. Wondered if the disappearing and reappearing footprints would confuse anyone. I was following Yappi and Dead Animals prints till they left the trail at Sunflower. Figured they hitched into Payson.
bowlegs
Bowlegs, it had snowed and those two guys with four horses had already passed over your tracks, so I didn’t get that much detail! But that would have been confusing. I was a day or two behind She-ra out of Flagstaff, and she alternated shoes, too, near the Grand Canyon. That confused me.
When I met the horse guys, they were texting on a cellphone on horseback. What an anachronism!
Garlic