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Charouleau Gap, Nov 2016 - pics and recap

alrock

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Bigunit, Reloader, Jeri, Jason and I hit the trails yesterday, running Charouleau Gap from Oracle to Tucson. It's a long trail, about 19 miles, and usually takes us 8-9 hours. But since the Scorpion didn't join us today, we were able to run it in six and a half hours :giggle:. All pics can be found here and downloaded in high res: :link:

A shot from early in the trail before we got to the fun stuff
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Jason on a tight switchback
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Jeri tackling a slippery, rutted descent
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Bigunit at the start of the rocky section
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Reloader in that same area
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Jason descending down into the dry creek bed
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Reloader coming up the Boat Ramp. Normally there's flowing water at the bottom, giving you good wet tires before climbing the granite ramp
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Jeri in the standing water in the creek. We were hoping for 18"-24" of flowing water
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Jason and Mom
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Bigunit and Reloader
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The gang
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Bigunit in a rock garden that would normally give us challenges; it was easy today
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alrock

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Jason in another rocky stretch
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Bigunit
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Heading down
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Parker shepherding the Hummers along
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This is why we didn't recommend our Power Wagon friend come along
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