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Day 3 - AZT750

Santa Catalina Mountains - Oracle - 98kms

By BIKEPACKING.BE

April 27^th, 2015

Redington pass - catalina highway

Last night I stopped early, I was tired, ate my last pieces of sushi and went to sleep, 2 meters from the track.

I got up quite early (around 1 o’clock) and got a long hike-a-bike over the Redington Pass to reach the picnic area at the Catalina Highway. I soon as I saw the rest rooms … STOP! … sleeping mat & sleeping bag and sleep until 7 o’clock.

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Unfortunately … the sound is not OK :-(

Summerhaven

The first part of the track was again hike-a-bike, but mostly bike and then a very scenic asphalt road to Summerhaven, quite some kilometers but I didn’t care. Finally, made some good progress.

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Calories!

ORACLE ridge

One of the most brutal hike-a-bike parts of the AZT. I really got frustrated on that part, hike-a-bike, thorns, rocks, bushes, burned trees, on the bike, of the bike, … and a very hard descent. We left around 11 o’clock AM in Summerhaven and made it to the gas station of Oracle just before sunset … about 30 miles.

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Rohloff rules!

Oracle

Made it to Oracle, went a couple of miles off route, to get food and water. The next part would be very long ….

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let's call it a day: 98kms / +18hours

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Footnotes

Credits to Gunther Desmedt

FootNotes

Credits to Gunther Desmedt

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