HILLS HURT, COUCHES KILL hiking log

If only people would get lost during the day...

 

Short workout hike in Sabino Canyon (Tucson, AZ) this morning. Cloudy morning and some colors we don't often see.

 

Hiked to Dudley's with the doggo

 

Drove up the middle fork Snoqualmie river trying to get out from under the dense fog down at sea level. Found some sun but it was still chilly in the valley. This area between Garfield Mt and Russian Butte always traps colder air, it's nickname is Little Siberia

 

back country hiking - Bighorn Mountains, WY




crossed these about 200 yards from the truck, most likely cougar, probably too big for bobcat

 

Nice pics. Hard to tell from the pic what those tracks are. I’m not seeing 4 toes which cougar and bobcat have and most every other North American mammal has. And no claw marks. My bet is you are correct that they are cougar tracks. But the quality of the pic on my iPad isn’t that great. Anyway very cool seeing those tracks on your hike. Thanks for sharing.

 

Looks like canine tracks to me but I'm no expert. See how the forward part of the heel pad almost comes to a point with one lobe, like a rounded triangle? Cat tracks have a more trapezoidal heel pad.



Still cool though if it's canine. In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw a wolf run across the road in front of my headlights a couple weeks ago. It was either a wolf or a mutant coyote because it was pretty damn big.

 

From January. Old plane wreckage on the Butterfly Trail in the Santa Catalinas.



And some ice flow. We had microspikes on the whole trip.


From today (February), up on Mount Guthrie also in the Santa Catalinas.

 

all I've been doing these days is burning gas and riding chairs

 

Awesome pics as always. I live vicariously in the outdoors through your pics. Been an outdoorsman all my life but age and back problems have significantly limited and slowed me down. Thanks for sharing.

 

Joined a hiking group and have knocked out the below hikes over the past couple weeks... nothing to crazy but its good to get out there... alltrails though I love it sometimes cuts corners and shortchanged my distances.....

 

all the pics here are so cool

 

Wheres it snowing good right now?

 

Not in Tucson, AZ.

 

Still snowing out here at pass level

 

3 days beach hiking, central Oregon coast

mostly sunny, highs of 50-55, strong winds from N-NW
sheltering in south-facing lee coves whenever I could find them









a cupajoe for the next leg



a couple of seconds after I took this photo, I was backpedaling as the wave propelled the dead beast toward me




a lee cove idyll



port in a storm or DEATH TRAP

 

April has been a blast

 

Evening tour with doggos and friends.