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threedogz
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 668 Location: Chandler
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Posted: 6/21/2008, 5:13 pm Post subject: Arizona Trail - Biking on Passage 40 |
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If anyone is interested in biking the AZT in the North Kaibab here is some images on how the trails look.
link to other images: www.threedogz.com/kaibab_azt/ _________________ You can never eat too much candy... |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 6/21/2008, 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Great ride. Thank you. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 6/22/2008, 1:13 am Post subject: |
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Wow, and we sit here in the heat. Go figure. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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Matt Hoffman
Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH
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Nighthiker
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714
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Posted: 6/22/2008, 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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Full suspension needed or can you get by with a hard tail ? Did you ride with your camping gear ? Thinking my next camping trip I may use my hardtail for the camping trip. |
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threedogz
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 668 Location: Chandler
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Posted: 6/22/2008, 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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I have a full suspension bike, my husband has a hard tail. I didn't have camping equipment (just a larger backpack than usual), we set up camp near the trail and we drove to one portion on one day with the people on the horses to do maintenance as well. The other days we rode our bikes from the campsite which is just off the 611 FR.
It can be done with a hard tail. Some hills were a little steep, but mostly loose rock/gravel was the culprit of discomfort, trying to bike uphill with tires spinning over rocks and going nowhere. _________________ You can never eat too much candy... |
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Nighthiker
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1714
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Posted: 6/24/2008, 5:28 am Post subject: |
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I use a hardtail with panniers and a hydration pack for camping. May be difficult with a full suspension to use panniers though I have seen it done. For vehicle camping, I still may take the road or mtn. bike but more often the mtn. bike. I enjoy the area between Clints Well to Flagstaff and the Mogollon Rim Lakes. |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 6/24/2008, 7:12 am Post subject: |
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How pretty. What a nice pic and get away. Now I have something else to think about. Hmmm _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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oliverr99
Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 632 Location: Glendale
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Posted: 6/24/2008, 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the pictures. My friend and I are planning to hike that portion. _________________ Anne
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" -- Dr. Seuss |
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outside1
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 366 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 6/27/2008, 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Someday I am going to get started on this trail. Maybe get a team together and just plain the trips out. Try and do the hole trail but in small weekend (or extended weekend) segments. Not sure if I would hike it all or do a combo of hike some and MT bike some.
Anyone interested? _________________ Tony |
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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 6/27/2008, 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'd love to get some more passages in, weekends are free for me and i don't mind wakin' up early _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 6/29/2008, 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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We started building the route from Snow Bowl north this weekend. Followed after the 4 foot wide bulldozer trying to make a trail out of what it left. The sod there is 6 inches thick so that had to be pitched out, then try to form soil the consistency of flour into something. I'm sure after some rain it will settle and become a trail. Got in on building a rock retaining wall too.
I'd be game for some long weekend trips up north starting maybe in Sept, everything till then is booked. And A guy on HAZ started this last winter but then disappeared. _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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