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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 1/10/2006, 7:04 am Post subject: Off-Trail Cross-Country |
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It's just now becoming apparent to me after many years hiking that I have a real affection for Off-Trail Cross-Country Hiking. I go to great pains to take only photographs and leave NO footprints as much as possible.
I find that I can swing around the other side of a mesa and experience an entirely different hike than that of the trail giving me absolutely endless hiking possibilities. I discovered this interest years ago by hiking in Mt Nutt before my house in Arizona but never put 2 and 2 together. Now Hiking at Lake Mead it comes to light. I’ve got years before I run out of routes and microcosms are infinitely for regular. I may not get as many miles in but the way is always more challenging at mostly more interesting.
Does anybody here prefer cross-country trekking? Has anybody found an Internet source for people who enjoy doing thee same? _________________ "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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fairweather8588
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 716
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Posted: 1/10/2006, 7:33 am Post subject: |
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I prefer cross-country in the McDowells. I'd say most of the hikes I've done were c.c. _________________ But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious
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BoyNhisDog The dangerous place where the winds meet
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1375 Location: Tucson
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Posted: 1/10/2006, 7:48 am Post subject: Re: Off-Trail Cross-Country |
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IGO wrote: |
Does anybody here prefer cross-country trekking? |
Is there any other kind? LOL For the most part, that is what I live for. That sort of travel started seriouly about 30 years ago for me when a couple of college buddies hooked up and we did something that showed me that the only barrier is your own mind. _________________ Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
- Andre Gide |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 1/10/2006, 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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North Shore Road is 70 miles long. I drive out until something strikes me, I park then just take off. I've run into everything and anything and the unpredicability is a huge part of the charm. Yep. I live for it too. _________________ "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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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 1/10/2006, 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Some of my best adventures have been offtrail! _________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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paintninaz
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3515
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Posted: 1/11/2006, 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Trail? Who hikes on a trail?
We don't need no stinkin' trail!!!! _________________ ~Tracy
“Friends make the bad times good — and the good times unforgettable.” |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 1/11/2006, 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Toto didn't use trails and look at the cool places he went. _________________ "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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BoyNhisDog The dangerous place where the winds meet
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1375 Location: Tucson
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Posted: 1/11/2006, 7:18 am Post subject: |
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IGO wrote: |
Toto didn't use trails and look at the cool places he went. |
No and look where he lead them, right into the middle of a huge poppy field. The flying monkeys sure threw him a curve though. I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!
That was a good dog. MGM had him stuffed and on display for years until an "activist" group "kidnapped" him, photographed him with a current newpaper and then gave him a proper burial. _________________ Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 1/11/2006, 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. Poppy field; indeed. _________________ "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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