The Arizona Trail: How to Avoid Norovirus on Trail

Much of the land after Oracle is a flat expanse between mountains. A good place for music, audiobooks, or conversation. The trail flew by for once, and with Mt. Lemmon a recent memory, Ice Cream and I were grateful to have some cruisy ground to hike on; it leaves plenty of breath for conversation, and we used all of it to dive deep into how our upbringing had affected our psychologies and our strategies for overcoming weaknesses we had inherited from our ancestors. And, as Forrest Gump says, That’s all I have to say about that.

Our current goal was a water catchment, a large, mushroom-shaped metal tank installed to catch rainwater for hikers and wildlife. This may have been the first time in my life that I was clumped into the same category as wildlife, and I quite enjoyed the idea of being classed with the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the earth—beasts of the wild, the coyote, the snake, the hiker. All looking for that good-good water.

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