{"id":643,"date":"2022-10-28T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=643"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:10:59","slug":"arizona-trail-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/28\/arizona-trail-day-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Trail Day 19: Pine"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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12.2 miles
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The wind continued all night, though slightly lessened in the morning. During the night there were small sticks and pine needles frequently falling and hitting my tent. I put my ear plugs in, but the tent was still blowing around quite a bit. I got some sleep but not a ton.<\/p>

We packed up carefully in the wind, it was trying to blow my tent away taking it down. Then when we started hiking, about 0.1 miles past camp, the wind completely died. Apparently the valley we were in was some sort of wind tunnel since there was no wind to speak of the rest of the day. There weren\u2019t tent sites past the valley though, so we just had to stay in the vortex.<\/p>

I passed Breaks shortly after camp when we layered down from no longer having wind. The trail continued on below the Mogollon Rim, winding in and out to go around buttresses in the formation, sort of like at Bryce Canyon. There were ever changing views of the fantastic rim, along with a wide diversity of lush vegetation. The trail was mostly red dirt and rock which was far different from the days on the plateau. Some of the rock even reminded me of a layer that I like in the Grand Canyon, and I wondered if it was the same layer at this distance away.<\/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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