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flickr -> pictures

1305 Junction of Middlemarch and Forest Road 687 looking towards Sheedshead

1305 Forest Road 687-Heading Out

1305 Abril Mine Ore Chute

1305 Abril Mine Ore Chute and Debris

1305 Abandoned and Collapsed Abril Mine Control Building

1305 Rock Formations

More Photos

RSS garmin -> rides/hikes/runs…

  • 1305 Slavin Gulch 2013 May 21
    This is from the Middlemarch/Forest Road 687 junction rather than from the Slavin Gulch Trailhead. On this hike I did not explore much past the obvious trail ending near the end of the ore chute. Gear: Tailwind Endurance Fuel, Inov-8 Trailroc 235, OR Ultra Gaiters, Injinji Original Weight Wool Quarter, Marmot Ascend Short, The North Face GTD Short Sleeve, Ul […]
  • 1305 Canada del Oro 2013 May 18
    A great top to bottom adventure in the Santa Catalina Mountains! The CDO was fairly easy to follow - it does not seem to get much use, but the trail work that has been done is holding up nicely. We were both surprised by the amount of water! Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiles/sets/72157633533766318/ Gear: Inov-8 Trailroc 245 (mostly love, weakness […]
  • 1305 River Path 2013 May 17
    I had hoped to go to Cochise today but could not - instead joined Alison for a sunset hike on the River Path! http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiles/8747016390/Owner: charles.milesLocation: --Activity Type: WalkingEvent Type: RecreationDistance: 3.00 MileTime: 01:36:11Elevation Gain: 79 Feet
  • 1305 Ventana Canyon AM Run 2013 May 14
    Great AM with Traci, Alison, Dave and Brian. Tough to get up - great way to start the day... Gear: Ultimate Direction Scott Jurek Ultra Vest (Underloaded in the back with water there was just a touch move bounce in the back pocket than I would have liked) with Hydrapak 2L Reversible Elite Reservoir with Shape-Shift Technology in slimmer configuration 2/3 ful […]
  • 1305 Shovel Spring Loop 2013 May 12
    A great hike/run with my friend Traci. Great views, cool birds (Western Tanager!), Horned Lizard, good company! Gear: Inov-8 Hot Peak 60, Mountain Hardwear Elmoro L/S T, Marmot Ascend Short, Ultimate Direction Scott Jurek Ultra Vest, Hydrapak 2L Reversible Elite Reservoir with Shape-Shift Technology in less volume configuration, Smartwool PhD Outdoor Lightwe […]
  • 1305 Millville and Petroglph Discovery area along the San Pedro 2013 May 10
    Short hike/exploration of what is at the 82/San Pedro Junction - in retrospect not sure why I didn't realize what was here, but indeed I had no idea there was well established Trailhead/Restroom/Small Trail System - very cool! (Edited to take out accidental road miles - Wish List: Garmin Connect needs to allow editing the end point, surely I am not the […]

RSS facebook -> status

  • Slavin Gulch yesterday - new trail for me! 2013 May 22
  • Awesome post from Lance Willett on our recent CDO hike! 2013 May 20
  • Photo - Great episode - crazy awesome set of interviews!!! 2013 May 20
  • Canada del Oro yesterday with Lance Willett! We had never been on the trail before and had a great time - the amount of water was a real surprise! Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiles/sets/72157633533766318/ Hike: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/314637555 2013 May 19
email: charles@cmiles.info

Organizations I Support

  • Arizona Trail Assonciation
  • Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
  • Direct Relief International
  • Friends of Ironwood Forest
  • Friends of Oracle State Park
  • Friends of Urban Wildlife
  • Pima Trails Association
  • Sky Island Alliance
  • The Oasis Sanctuary
  • Tucson Avian Rescue and Adoption Foundation

RSS cmiles-consuming -> posts

  • The Frozen Sky: The Novel, Jeff Carlson 2013 May 20
    Bizarre aliens under the ice on Europa – first contact gone wrong – action/adventure/explosions/chase scenes – robots – politics. Certainly there are a lot of smart/interesting details (environment, biology, behavior, technology) that I don’t want to minimize (well researched for sure) – but this novel mainly feels like a fun movie to me, sci-fi alien […] […]
  • Anathema Rhodes: Dreams, Iimani David 2013 May 6
    Well I suppose that the author‘s site has a better summary than I could ever hope to offer: “After a lifetime of self-medicating fails and life finally begins its tilt toward self-destruction, Jodi – a 25-year-old writer nursing the psychological lacerations of being a “rape-child” – meets, through dreams, a special five-year-old boy who shows […] […]
  • April 2013 Notes 2013 May 1
    Awake – I thought about this show again this month while some other cop show played on the TV, I never watched every single episode of Awake but I still occasionally think about it. To be sure every episode might note have quite been a masterpiece but the whole premise was awesome, creative and very […]
  • Second Shift – Order and Third Shift – Pact, Hugh Howey 2013 April 16
    Second Shift – Order and Third Shift – Pact are volumes 7 and 8 of Hugh Howey’s Silo Series (on this blog see Wool Omnibus (Wool 1-5) and First Shift – Legacy (Part 6 of the Silo Series)). These two books are good – quite a bit of great ‘filling out’ of previous characters/plot/world and […]
  • Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 2013 April 3
    From Denis Johnson‘s Train Dreams (p. 112): He was standing on a cliff. He’d found a back way into a kind of arena enclosing a body of water called Spruce Lake, and now he looked down on it hundreds of feet below him, its flat surface as still and black as obsidian, engulfed in the […]

RSS cmiles -> posts

  • Slavin Gulch – May 2013 2013 May 22
    I started the AM with the intent of just doing a quick run on Forest Road 687 to fill in a gap in my section hike of the Sky Island Traverse (my first post about the SKIT), but when I arrived at the Slavin Gulch Trailhead I could not resist going up the trail. The […]
  • 2013 May Canada del Oro 2013 May 21
    The CDO! Neither Lance nor I had ever been down the Canada del Oro trail and this was a great trip – Montezuma Quail, Painted Redstarts, Western Tanager, Horned Lizards, Black Rattlers, Flowers, Bear Scat and WATER! Both Lance and I were surprised to find miles of flowing water, quite a treat! Thanks to Alison […]

RSS pinboard -> everyday…

  • Moab Return
  • NewsBlur
    Marked because this looks so much like the sky (caged...) after the cables for the Modern Street Car project went in.
  • Aussie government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200 | Ars Technica
  • Review: The Cairngorms in Winter with Chris Townsend

RSS pinboard -> outdoor/retail

  • Army Study: No Difference in Injury Rates Between Traditionally and Minimally Shod Soldiers
    Interesting source and abstract about lack of difference in injury rates.
  • Ultrabag® MDS 20L « www.waa-ultra-equipment.com
    Cool looking pack!
  • Brooks PureGrit 2 Review
    They should be killing it with this given the Cascadia market position and overall success with Pure but not quite...
  • Suluk 46 - Bug Proof Bivy

RSS pinboard -> links

  • One-Shot vs. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Colorful Paper Art by Yulia Brodskaya
  • Be Careful About Converting Your Experience into a Prescription for All Runners
  • Rob Krar’s Grand Canyon R2R2R FKT Report
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