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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 11/11/2006, 1:48 pm Post subject: Out of state hikes catagory |
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It seams to me, it would make sense to add another catagory for out of state posts. Alot of people seam to enjoy leaving arizona, going on an adventure and posting them here in the trip logs section. Or people like me who dont live in AZ (anymore) who like to post there hiking stories. Just seams to me to organize things a little better. _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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RedRoxx44 Queen of the Walkabout
Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 1167
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Posted: 11/11/2006, 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Makes sense to me, a lot of my recently posted treks ain't in Az. _________________ You can rest when you're dead |
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gpsjoe
Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 535 Location: Mesa AZ
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Posted: 11/11/2006, 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Go for it! |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 11/11/2006, 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that sounds like a great idea, I don't think it would need to be any more specific than just out of state hikes. I've done stuff in Cali a few times. Would love to go to Colorado sometime as well. Then there is that little mountain in Mexico that still calls my name. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 11/12/2006, 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Little mountain? You talkin' about Picacho del Diablo by chance? I have a story..... |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 11/12/2006, 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, Pico De Orizaba 18,400 feet or so. Little is relative to say "Everest" |
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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Posted: 11/14/2006, 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Davis2001R6 wrote: |
Nope, Pico De Orizaba 18,400 feet or so. Little is relative to say "Everest" |
dude, you are diehard
Rim to rim to rim n the Canyon, an attempt on Shasta with little sleep, and now looking at Pico De Orizaba.
Ever thought of doing Mt. Ranier as training? _________________ Mountains are there to be climbed!
"Meaningless! Meaningless," says the teacher, "Utterly Meaningless, Everything is meaningless."-Ecclesiastes 1:2 |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 11/14/2006, 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Rainier is more difficult on a technical level, Orizaba is just 4000 feet taller.
So who wants to go to Mexico? If you want you can just set-up the AZH base camp at 14'000 feet and I'll hike it from there. I just don't know about traveling to Mexico solo when I really don't speak any spanish. |
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Matt Hoffman
Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH
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Posted: 11/14/2006, 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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My girlfriend did Orizaba a few years ago shortly before I met her. It turned her off of mountaineering, but it sounded really awesome to me! Hopefully, I'll have Rainier under my belt in about a year. I'll be hitting up some Colorado 13er's this winter and spring. I'll be learning to ice climb in February, so I'll be set more or less in the skills department after that. _________________ "Your day-glo ballet days are over." Ancient chinese proverb.
http://web.mac.com/climbingsponge/Matt_Hoffman_Images/Welcome.html |
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desertgirl
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ
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Posted: 11/14/2006, 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Matt Hoffman wrote: |
My girlfriend did Orizaba a few years ago shortly before I met her. It turned her off of mountaineering, but it sounded really awesome to me! Hopefully, I'll have Rainier under my belt in about a year. I'll be hitting up some Colorado 13er's this winter and spring. I'll be learning to ice climb in February, so I'll be set more or less in the skills department after that. |
It will be cool to hear from her ..just to understand what made her turned off ? _________________ Photos: http://www.pbase.com/desertgirl/galleries
Life is but a dream ...there is no end to what you can dream! |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 11/15/2006, 5:12 am Post subject: |
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You won't catch me up there in the cold, bleak & steep! I don't need to hear from Matt's girlfriend to know the answer! I tried mountaineering--ropes, ice axe, crampons, etc., in the Sierras, when I was in my twenties. Decided I didn't like it. Too cold, inhospitable, not fun. Some of the people that do it have a very competitive, type-A personality, too. (Not speaking about anyone on here, just people I knew back then.) Not fun to be with uptight people, either.
It reminds me of how many personality types do visit the mountains, even if you are talking only about non-motorized activities. Some experience spiritual Nirvana, some go for the rollercoaster thrills. Some want to go further and faster, others want to stop and smell every flower. Some are always looking for the next competitive event (mtn. biking, trail running, rock climbing, etc.) others for the most remote and unknown meadow. Some make lists of peaks they've climbed, hurrying on to the next one. Others hike to a lonely spot and find a rock to sit on for a week, just to look at the view. There's something for everyone, I guess you could say.
I remember an old acquaintance of mine who told me he went backpacking once with some friends. Told me he hated backpacking because you could never stop to rest. It turns out these people kept going for hours without a break, not thinking of the newbie with them. I told this guy I stop whenever I feel like it, and usually at least once an hour. He was amazed. I guess it didn't occur to him you were allowed to do that!
I'm not sure if we need an out-of-state separate forum. A lot of people do post their out-of-state hikes. Of course, these are mostly in Calif, Utah, N. Mex. and Colorado. But these hikes don't make up a very large percentage of all hikes posted. Someone could do a "study" to find out? |
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Canyon Dweller
Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 11/15/2006, 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting trip report. Tim, when were you thinking of going? _________________ 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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Matt Hoffman
Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 701 Location: Grantham, NH
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Posted: 11/15/2006, 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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desertgirl wrote: |
It will be cool to hear from her ..just to understand what made her turned off ? |
I think she encountered some terrain that scared the hell out of her. Plus she doesn't like to be cold. She just simply decided that mountaineering wasn't for her. Fair enough...I guess. _________________ "Your day-glo ballet days are over." Ancient chinese proverb.
http://web.mac.com/climbingsponge/Matt_Hoffman_Images/Welcome.html |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 11/15/2006, 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Tim, when were you thinking of going?
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Well I had wanted to go in early Decemeber, but that isn't going to happen this year. The prime season runs till February there though, but I don't think that is going to work either. So I plan to go for it next December. Fly out Friday night and stay in Mexico City. Do a warm up hike on a 15'er then head out to Orizaba. Return home the next saturday. |
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