{"id":672,"date":"2022-11-09T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/?p=672"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:06:37","slug":"arizona-trail-day-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetihikes.net\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/09\/arizona-trail-day-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Trail Day 31: Sonoran Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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20.5 miles
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I was woken three times last night by a pack of coyotes breaking out in a howling\/barking session. They weren\u2019t far off, but I didn\u2019t expect they would bother me. The last session was just before dawn so I got an earlier start than usual at sunrise.<\/p>

I continued across the Sonoran Desert today, and the trail was largely flat scrub for the first half of the day. There wasn\u2019t really much of note. Just something that has to be crossed as part of walking across the state. It wasn\u2019t good or bad, it just was.<\/p>

I bumped into Kevin early on at a cow pond with water that wasn\u2019t too cloudy despite the cow shit in it. It filtered decently. I cut a corner off trail leaving the pond, and I think I passed Kevin by doing that.<\/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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