{"id":4606,"date":"2021-11-09T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2024-02-11T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:20:51","slug":"hayduke-trail-day-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/09\/hayduke-trail-day-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayduke Trail Day 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Start: Old Corral on Kaibab Plateau<\/span><\/p>

Finish: Nankoweap Trailhead<\/span><\/p>

Daily Mileage: 24.7<\/span><\/p>

Trip Mileage: 682.0<\/span><\/p>

Elevation gain\/loss: 3136\/2114ft<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I was awakened this morning at 4:00 a.m. to coughing.\u00a0 It wasn’t mine.\u00a0 Some hiker was night hiking and decided to take a break near my tent and smoke some weed, which led to a long coughing fit.\u00a0 For some reason, they just stayed there by my tent for 5 minutes coughing.\u00a0 I was about to shout out to them to move on when they did.\u00a0 Their light was shining directly on my tent, so I’m sure they knew someone was there.\u00a0 I just have no idea why they were so rude to sit there and wake me up and keep me awake.\u00a0 It took me a while, but I was able to eventually get back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>

As I started hiking, I was just thinking about how I’ve been on the Arizona Trail for about 40 miles in total, and I’ve had two pretty negative experiences with hikers being rude assholes.\u00a0 One of the things that I’ve missed about long-distance backpacking is the community.\u00a0 When I hiked the AT, there were a lot of unique hikers, and some were pretty eccentric, but everyone I met meant well, and even the oddest seemed harmless.\u00a0 I did meet a couple of great hikers on this trail already, but then another stole my food and the one woke me up this morning.\u00a0 So I\u2019m batting .50 right now.\u00a0 This got me to wondering if things have changed since I hiked the AT or if I’ve just run into some unique assholes.\u00a0 I’d like to think the latter, but I have heard that with the uptick in long-distance backpacking, there’s also a minority of people doing it with not the best intentions, just for social media and their own ego.<\/span><\/p>

Anyways, I don’t know what to make of it yet, but it didn’t give me the warm fuzzy feeling that long-distance backpacking on a social trail would be as enjoyable as it was for me previously.<\/span><\/p>

I didn’t see the sunrise, but I did see the effects through the trees with clouds above reflecting the sunlight.\u00a0 That’s what I set off to hiking this morning.\u00a0 It didn’t get as cold as I thought it would, but I camped under some pines to try to hold in some more heat.\u00a0 In some of the open fields that I crossed, there was a little bit of frost, but that’s not surprising.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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