Peralta Trail Hike 11-16-03

[Trishness]

Doing a Peralta Trail Hike on Sunday 11-16-03 and meeting in AJ somewhere around 8 AM. There's already a few people definitely going and everyone is welcome.

I know it's a late start but we gotta give the West Valley people a break from those 5 AM wake ups to hike the Supes, not to mention the hour drive.

If interested just drop a message here and we'll confirm meeting place by Friday.

Trish
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[matt gilbert]

I may be interested, how far down peralta are you planning on going and/or is anyone else interested in doing the cave trail on the return route?

[sherileeaz]

Right now I'm a bit under the weather but hopefully I'll be feeling better by Sunday. I hope to see you there! I'll go as far as this "old" body takes me! yeah yeah, start with the comments, I can take it!

Sheri

[marc labelle]

Hey Trish, I took your advice and joined up here as well. I would love to join in, but as I said before, I am slave to the overtime gods this sat. and sun. Thank goodness for fridays off or I would never get to hike.

I look forward to joining you again on a hike. I hope you enjoy this weekend's hike.

[Tom Treks]

Depending on how I feel Sun morning (going to a wedding reception Sat night), I'm a definite maybe.

You may want to consider doing Cave Trail on the way back down. It's a pretty neat trail. Looks like Matt is up for it. Make sure someone goes who has done it before though. Trail finding is a tad confusing up there. It's basically downhill the whole way to the trailhead, so I'm sure you all would enjoy it.

[Trishness]

[Tom Treks]

It's about 5 miles r.t. either way you go up, and come down. It all depends on how much exploring past Freemont saddle you plan on doing.

Who all is planning on going so far?

[Hikngrl]

oh Trish! I love you!!!!! I can't go on the hike but I love you all the same!!!!! I will be in Tucson this weekend so can't go but the fact that someone recognized the fact that us west valley peole have to drive forever to get to you guys over in the east valley before we even get started on the ride to the trail head is SO wonderful!!!!! Thank you! Nuff said!
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[matt gilbert]

I have never been on the cave trail but I'm confident enough of my route finding ability to make it back to the TH. If no one else felt confident enough to to it I would probably refrain. If we go too far past the saddle I might be inclined to just stay on the trail before. If we go past the saddle theres no point in not going up the needle a little ways, its off-trail as well, but I've done it before, and its well worth the extra effort. Really theres enough to see from the saddle (or there-abouts) but I'm game for just about anything.

[sherileeaz]

Matt, what is the estimate on distance? Time? Difficulty?

[mike]

If I can make this one, I'm interested. I've done the Cave Trail (in the opposite direction), so I could help with the route finding. it's really not that difficult to follow. If you've got the time, you'll want to head out to the Weaver's Needle Overlook before you hit the Cave trail. It's well worth the effort!
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[matt gilbert]

The distance is about 5 mi. maybe 6 if you include the overlook trail (but well worth it). I couldn't say what the difficulty of it is except that HAZ rates it as a 3.5 on a scale of 5. I've done other trips rated similarly and found them to be well inside the realm of do-ability.

[Daddee]

I won't be able to make it (I don't hike on Sundays) - but I'm with Mike, the trail really isn't all that difficult as there are cairns every 5 or 6 feet of the way down the cave trail. The Peralta trail really isn't difficult at all as far as trails go. Perhaps longer than Squaw Peak, but not any more difficult. The walk out to the Weaver's Needle overlook from the Freemont sadle is a nice little walk too without difficulty.

I'll be taking a buddy who just came to AZ a few months ago on that very hike on Saturday morning.

Enjoy the hike - wish you were doing it on Saturday so I could go with you.
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