{"id":642,"date":"2022-10-27T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=642"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:12:35","slug":"arizona-trail-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/27\/arizona-trail-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Trail Day 18: Mogollon Rim"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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22.5 miles
320 AZT mile marker<\/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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It got a little colder than I expected last night, with some frost in the open fields. I was walking to Breaks tent to make sure she was up when I scared up a herd of large elk. They weren\u2019t very far away, but I didn\u2019t have my camera at the ready. After they disappeared, I could still hear them bugling.<\/p>

I took off before Breaks with a nice brief uphill to get me warm. It was the normal uneventful pine forest to start, but that would soon change. After 5 miles, I dropped down into a shallow valley and crossed an actual flowing stream! I wasn\u2019t aware that so much flowing water was allowed in Arizona outside of the Grand Canyon basin.<\/p>

After traversing some more forest, the trail dropped down into another valley, and followed another flowing stream. So much water. The trail crisscrossed it several times while following it upstream. There were even other feeder streams going into it. I\u2019m not sure where all this water came from. Needless to say, I never carried more than a liter today apart from the last stretch to my dry camp.<\/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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