Saturday 8-29-26 Hiking, Camping, Reading & Games

 

Matchless Campground and Turquois Lake

We have been at Matchless for a week and tomorrow we're moving on. The mornings have been brisk with the temperatures in the mid 30's and mid 40's and high temperatures were in the low to mid 70's. We did four hikes for a total of 13.5 miles and walked for 27.5 miles. We had great weather and helped a very nice gentleman (Ron) from Tucson. 

Today was a little cooler the morning temperature was 47 and the high temperature was 68 degrees. We had sunshine on and off so we got plenty of solar to charge our batteries. 

I crawled out of bed at 7:15 am and got dressed. Then I made pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast we got ready for a hike. We did an easy hike because my right knee was bugging be a bit. We hiked 3 miles for two hours on three trails, which were Turquois Lake, Nature and Fallen Tree. We started from the Minnie, walked to the overflow campground and picked up Turquois Lake Trail. We hiked it for about a half mile to the Nature Trail. We hiked the Nature Trail for another half mile, where it met up with Fallen Tree Trail. We hiked Fallen Tree Trail Loop, which was 1.5 miles. The trails took us through the trees along the banks of the lake. We hiked up and down small hills. We hiked by a small campground, a maintenance building and an old holding pond for the dump. They don't have the dump any more. As we hiked we noticed that the Fallen Tree Trail had been raked. We figured it was because of the run they had last weekend. While hiking back to the Minnie on Turquois Lake Trail we saw five bicyclists (two men and three women) and a woman jogger. The bicyclists were very courteous by saying how many cyclists there were in their group. We saw the woman jogging through out the hike, she was jogging Fallen Tree Trail. We had a super hike.

Turquois Lake Trail

When we passed by Ron's rig he was trying one more thing with his generator. Larry stopped to see what was going on. Ron had the generator running but it is not perfect. At least it's idling better. Larry visited with Ron for a bit. Larry gave Ron some suggestions on where to go considering this is Ron's first ever camping trip.

I played games while Larry visited with Ron. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: World Tour Mini of 10 games. It took me 42 minutes and 23 seconds to complete, which put me in 18th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

I continued reading  The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple. 

Relaxing with a book

We had chili and corn chips for dinner. After dinner we went on an hour walk for 3 miles. We walked around Silver Dollar Campground and Matchless Campground once. Larry walked with me the first two miles, which was Silver Dollar Campground. We had a very nice walk.

By the end of the day I did 16,000 steps.