Bluff Springs Hike

I had a great day out with the AOTC hiking from the Peralta Trailhead to the Bluff Springs Trail to the Lost Dutchman Trail. It was ten miles with an elevation gain of 1400ft. I have included my iphone gps stats below. You can click on "Bluff Springs" and see more at the EveryTrail site. Also below is a slide show of photos from the trip.

Bluff springs

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Boulder Canyon/ Second Water HIke

Yesterday I joined the AOTC group to hike the Boulder Canyon and Second Water trails. For those of you who just like to view the photos, they are here. There is also a slideshow at the end of this post.

The trip was an out and back trip of approximately 15 miles. I used my iphone gps and it was out from that but you can see the information it gives below. (It was not set to high accuracy to conserve battery power. ) For a phone I think it give a pretty good overview of what we did that day. You can click on the link and see more detailed information and maps.

The hike was very pretty with great views of Battleship Mountain. The desert was very green. We saw only one flower and one cactus about to bloom. If we get some more rain it might be a good wildflower season which starts in February and peaks in March. We also saw an old indian clay mine.

The trip leaders, Dan and Garry, were awesome. They made sure everyone was safe. Apparently ten people were lost on the trail last year. It was a great day out.

Boulder canyon/ second water

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Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dad and I went to see a show called Dixie's Tupperware Party.  It is a comedy about the life of an ex-con who needed to get a job to get back her kids.  The job chosen was tupperware.  The show was very funny with Dixie offering a variety of alternatives for the uses of tupperware and many sexual references.   We had seats right at the front and Dad became almost a co-star when he volunteered the information that he had never been to a tupperware party.  Dixie often called on him when when making an off hand remark.  However, the exceptionally funny bit came when she had him come on stage to demonstrate the use of the tupperware can opener.  For those of you who do not know this can opener, it works very differently than the regular one.  She gave Dad instruction on its use for five to ten minutes.  Poor dad struggled but was finally able to get it happening.  After all that I thought that she was going to give him a can opener but no instead he got the can of fruit that he opened.  To give Dad credit when Wendy came to visit me she tried to open a can of something while I was at work and gave up.  I had one of these Tupperware can openers.  Below is a picture that we took after the show.

From Dixie's Tupperware Party

Romero Canyon

Went out yesterday with AOTC (Arizona Outdoor Travel Club) to do a hike in the Tuscon region. We met at Fry's Electronics at 6:30am and journeyed down to Catalina State Park where we split into two groups. Group A hiked to the Romero Saddle and Group B hiked a fair ways into Romero Canyon. Since it was my first hike back I went with Group B. The day started out with a small emergency. Grace's water had all spilled out in transit. However, myself and others had extra so we filled her up. The hike was beautiful. I put some photos here. I was glad that I did the 10mile hike as my foot was quite sore on the way down. However, it wasn't as bad as it could have been and I was able to walk eight miles today without issue. I am seeing the acupuncturists again tomorrow in hope that I can get to a pain free point.

I tried out the iphone Trails application on the return leg of the hike. It created this map. I am not sure how accurate it is. For sure the speed is out. Also the distance and elevation don't seem to exactly match but it is kind of cool.

Romero canyon

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