Sunday, February 24, 2013

Hiking in a freezing wind

The weather this winter in the Southwest has been nothing short of amazing. Cold and rainy.

The temperature this morning was in the 30s. A high of only 50 was predicted. But there were 30 mph winds which meant that when we started our hike today the wind chill was below 30.

Today we hiked 7.8 miles, with an elevation gain of 1600 feet. We did the Vewpoint and Little Long Canyon Corridor trails. The latter gets our award for the winner of the "Why Would They Name A Trail This?" contest. It was actually a viewpoint trail, and a nice one.


Here is a cool photo of Vicky at the end of the Little Long etc. trail.  Check out her hair to see how strong the wind is.





It was a beautiful view down into a canyon. Is it the Little Long Canyon? We don't know.

Winds are supposed to die down tonight. We hope so.

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