Mick Meyer writes...
Many of the treks have days with no planned activities. For example, trek 21
has a two day break in the middle of the week with no activities other than
hiking. Do the guys enjoy these quiet days? And view them as a chance to just
take it easy? Or do the guys want an activity every day?
Comment...
Mick is talking about Days 7 (Upper Dean Cow) and Day 8 (Upper Bench), two back
to back trail camps with no activities scheduled as you make your way from the
two day layover at Ute Meadows (filled with activity including climbing Baldy,
and program at Miranda and French Henry) and the two day layover at Cito (also
filled with activity, with rock climbing, environmental awareness, Hidden Valley
sidehike, lodge tour at Hunting Lodge). But Days 7 and 8 the only staffed camp
Trek 21 passes through/near is Head of Dean, and Trek 21 was already there on
Day 4.
Program at Head of Dean is Challenge events and (pre-fire) was timber stand
improvement Conservtion project. I am sure that there still is a conservtion
project there, though now called "fire restoration" or something.
I did Trek 21 in 2001. Day 4 was the very short hike from Pueblano to HOD.
Even with the burro, we were there by 9:00 and had plenty of time to do the
program in the morning and the conservation project in the afternoon. (The hike
this summer is a little longer, from Flume Canyon.)
On Day 7, we took our time leaving Ute Meadows (on the trail by 7 or so?), got
to Head of Dean and basically hung out there for the day. Another crew mostly
from my troop was doing Trek 24 and was at HOD that day as well, and did the
program but not the cons project, since they had taken care of that earlier.
The two crews played basketball after lunch, rested, etc., and both moved
mid/late afternoon down to Upper Dean Cow to set up camp.
Day 8 we got a reasonably early start and were at Visto Grande about lunch time
(again, no need to rush). Since Upper Bench is dry, and there is a spring at
Visto Grande, we had dinner for lunch and again generally hung out, took naps,
etc. before moving on, getting to Upper Bench just before dinner time. As it
turned out, we spent a couple of minutes too long at Visto Grande, because a
violent thunderstorm blew up and we just got our tents up and into them before
it hit.
So, with that long preface, the short answer to your question is that my crew
appreciated the days without program. However, the layover at Cito was too long because they decided to do both environmental awareness and Hidden Valley the afternoon of Day 9 and rock climbing first thing (8 a.m.) the morning of Day 10. The rest of that day did drag, and I suspect the light days preceeding
contributed to that.
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