Just got back from an 8 day camping trip for work at Grass Shack Campground in the Rincon Mountains East of Tucson. Had three new crew members this tour. I was a little slow to take to the new sausage party dynamics. Just a lot of guys hanging out doing MadLibs in the backcountry. The cool thing this tour was unepected weather. 4 AM Thursday some of the longest rolling thunder I've heard ever and probably the first real thunder storm I've been in about 10 years since leaving the midwest. The storms rolled in for 2 days. Friday 7 AM lightning and hail. It was awesome. I so loved it. We chilled in the tent til it passed over and then it was gone.
It's nice to be in wide open spaces and to know it watching storms rolll in and rock.
One night, I hung out with Dan and stayed up til 12:30 drunk, which was kind of a mistake. Every other night I went to bed around 8:30- 9. The rest of the week was hot. I did some random building projectss for two days then the last five days built basically a whole switchback and approach. I know this means little to most but we built some cool shit here. Stuff I haven't before built or seen before. I had Daniel pretty much as my crush and rock slave and he pulled through with a lot of big rocks and comments. We used a couple of notably big rocks and built check steps up to a bed of crush on which we set a water bar into the crush with a splash pan and around the corner into the a new set of checks. Anyways I was really wrapped up and happy with our work finishing it just in time pulling off some clutch moves on the last day.
The tour seemed extra long with new crew dynamics and unexpected weather. Coming out today seemed like reconstucting my memory from scratch as I remembered my thoughts and routines of Tucson and recent past.
No rest for me though. A friend flew in from Portland tonight and we're going backpacking back in the Rincons tomorrow for 3 days. We're going to the top of Mica Mountains some 8K feet high starting from around 2-3K in Tucson. It's a place I've never been but it turns out I'm going there for work next week anyways. In the meantime it's been 7 nights backcountry for work. Out tonight. Then 3 more nights backcountry tomorrow. 3 more days offafter that then 7 back in the backcountry for work. On and on. This is the start of what it's like in the summer.
It's nice to be in wide open spaces and to know it watching storms rolll in and rock.
One night, I hung out with Dan and stayed up til 12:30 drunk, which was kind of a mistake. Every other night I went to bed around 8:30- 9. The rest of the week was hot. I did some random building projectss for two days then the last five days built basically a whole switchback and approach. I know this means little to most but we built some cool shit here. Stuff I haven't before built or seen before. I had Daniel pretty much as my crush and rock slave and he pulled through with a lot of big rocks and comments. We used a couple of notably big rocks and built check steps up to a bed of crush on which we set a water bar into the crush with a splash pan and around the corner into the a new set of checks. Anyways I was really wrapped up and happy with our work finishing it just in time pulling off some clutch moves on the last day.
The tour seemed extra long with new crew dynamics and unexpected weather. Coming out today seemed like reconstucting my memory from scratch as I remembered my thoughts and routines of Tucson and recent past.
No rest for me though. A friend flew in from Portland tonight and we're going backpacking back in the Rincons tomorrow for 3 days. We're going to the top of Mica Mountains some 8K feet high starting from around 2-3K in Tucson. It's a place I've never been but it turns out I'm going there for work next week anyways. In the meantime it's been 7 nights backcountry for work. Out tonight. Then 3 more nights backcountry tomorrow. 3 more days offafter that then 7 back in the backcountry for work. On and on. This is the start of what it's like in the summer.