{"id":658,"date":"2022-11-04T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=658"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:14:03","slug":"arizona-trail-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/04\/arizona-trail-day-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Trail Day 26: Exiting Superstition Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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24.1 miles
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It definitely got cold last night. Not the coldest night of the trip, but cold. It was also very humid and damp out which I knew would lead to condensation in my tent. When I woke during the night, it was building up thick, so I opened one door to try to ventilate. When I woke up in the morning, my entire tent was coated in a layer of frost, and there was some on my quilt as well.<\/p>

I slept well, but it was hard to get out of my bag, looking at my rock hard frozen socks and shoes. They were absolutely solid. I put my socks in my pockets a bit to melt them, and beat on my shoes to loosen them up a bit. I did everything I could from my sleeping bag, but there came the point where I had to give it up and commit to cold feet.<\/p>

It took some work to get my feet into my shoes. I had to stand up and work my feet for a bit just to get them in. Then I raced to pack up my frozen tent, just putting it in its stuff sack laden with frost. The key to get warm is to get moving, so I set off as quickly as I could.<\/p>

The trail was going up a valley that was pretty lush and thick with grasses and reeds. All of these were coated in a thick layer of frost that was quite beautiful and also cold as I pushed my way through them and got more and more ice on me. All I could do was keep moving.<\/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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