The Long Way Home: 2009

May 10, 2009

Grand Canyon

A friend at work wanted to take a trip to the Grand Canyon to hike the Lava Falls route from the North Rim to the river and back. So 3 of us drove 2 days down to Arizona hiked for 2 days and drove back. Thr first day we hike the Lava Falls route down and back. (3 hours to go 1.5 miles and down 2500 feet of elevation) we stayed for 3 hours swimming, watching rafters and exploring and than it took us 3 hours to hike out.

The 2nd day we hike the Saddle Horse canyon trail to find Saddle Horse spring and later in the day hiked part of the Tukup up trail. See the complete photo gallery at http://picasaweb.google.com/JReedFamilyalbum

Mar 24, 2009

March Rains

If April showers bring May flowers what do March rains bring? (just a mess). We had 1" of freezing rain on Mon March 23rd. That with the partially frozen ground and the melting snow made quite a mess.

Feb 26, 2009

We went to Cancun Mexico the week of Feb 18th `09. A couple of pictures here, the rest can be seen here http://picasaweb.google.com/JReedFamilyalbum/Mexico#

Feb 9, 2009

Another good blog from the AH135. I spent many hours walking with this guy Monday afternoon.
http://jkcadence.blogspot.com/

Here is a great description of the Arrowhead 135 from a biker with lots of great pictures.
http://lacemine29.blogspot.com/2009/02/a135-day-one-its-all-good.html

A group of us went to the Squaw Bay sea caves on saturday the 7th of Feb. The group included Jim Lynn Lisa and Elizabeth Reed, Zak Bennet, Bob and Cathy Mills, Tammy and Alyssa Gatlin and Mitch and Carol Peterson.
Here are pictures from Bob and Cathy

http://picasaweb.google.com/bobmills7211/ICECAVESINWISCONSIN2009?authkey=l0TVnQRNSys

Feb 4, 2009

A few images from the 2009 Arrowhead 135. I only made it 35 miles this year. Tough conditions apparently for everybody, times for everyone seemed real slow and a lot of dropouts.