On April 2nd Doug and I went to the Superstition Mountains for a training hike. A friend came out and met up with us early in the morning. We did the Peralta Trail - which we have done several times before. Any of you kids remember the time we went out there for a little hike years ago? Anyway, it was a nice morning and we enjoyed the hike. 
A few things I want to mention: 1. Doug lost the rubber tip off of one of his hiking sticks during the first 20 minutes of the hike. Bummer!
2. I took my new mini travel tripod and we were able to take pictures with all of us together. Nice! It is my new backpacking equipment addition. As you can see in the picture it is made of lots of ball-like structures. Each joint in the tripod is bendable. That way it can be placed on uneven surfaces and you can bend it and form it until the camera is pointing where you want it and relatively level. It can even be bent around a branch or something like that. It is pretty sweet indeed! As you can see in the people pictures that I posted - 1st picture the dang rock got in the picture, 2nd picture dark people and beautiful Weaver's Needle, 3rd picture better people and decent scenery. We'll have to work on our picture compositions.
3. We were blessed to be able to see 2 beautiful red cardinals as we neared the end of the hike. Wow! What a sight! They were a little camera shy though so no pictures.
4. On the drive on the dirt road back to Mesa - we saw a snake on the side of the road. We had a quick glimpse and wanted to see more so we backed up. There it was in the perfect "S" shape as if slithering across the road. But it wasn't moving at all. Doug got his hiking stick out and gave it a poke or two. It was definitely dead. Funny thing is it didn't look damaged, injured, deformed, or splattered at all. Just looked like it was frozen in action. It was a young rattlesnake about 18" long and a short rattle. Too bad it didn't get to grow up.
That is all I want to say about our hike into the Superstition Mountains a few weekends ago.
2 comments:
COOL tripod. Nice pictures
I love the tripod! I got 2 of them for $5! Um....I love the phrase 'dark people' in picture #2 but don't know why you didn't say 'light people' in picture #3! Funny. And where's the picture of the snake? Did you do any sort of memorial for it? I'm sure with Doug being a bishop he has performed a funeral or two.
Post a Comment