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Welp, 800 miles - FINALLY DONE! Due to super busy schedules across 4 hikers PLUS mother nature (The fires up on the north Kiabab torpedoed our planned finish last summer....), it took us much longer than anticipated, but last weekend my partners and I finally finished the AZT. Like many of you, I'm a native and love AZ. Doing this hike gave me an opportunity to see (and walk through) parts of the state that I had never seen. Many of them I am sure I will never see again! The real ball busters were Miller Peak, Superstition Wilderness (We did Roger's Trough to Roosevelt in one day. Ugh!), Rincons - Mica Mountain, the Mazatals, and of course the Rim to Rim. Many of the other sections were hard, but those 5 stood out. We of course hiked lots of easy stuff, too. Mexico Utah

You can’t reason with horse people. They’d rather all the native wildlife die so the horses can live

It helps to be both lucky and good

I think Trump targeting and taking out Massie shows you all you need to know about Trump. If you still think he’s got America’s best interest in mind after that, you gotta dig your head out of the sand.

Birria tacos and fixings....

I had a stock 1997,they i got crazy

This day in age, a 180 buck is the new 200"... I've been lucky to kill quite a few on general rifle tags but way harder now than just a few years ago. No fawn crop basically from 2019 through 2021 let alone the latest droughts. Very tough....

to the OP, burn your points in the other unit, go hunting... leaves one more tag for me with my .000001% chance

It truly is sad.

Kill them all

3a/3c was my go-to Unit for years. We'd put in for Cow tags and would get drawn three years in a row, then one year we wouldn't, then we'd get drawn two years in a row, etc. Opening day one of us would tag out on a Friday, the other on Saturday, and by Sunday we were headed back down the hill with coolers full of meat. Saw dozens of Elk all weekend. Five years passed before I got drawn for a Cow tag again last November. We spent 4 days in 3c glassing, covering ground, hiking, still hunting the thick stuff, etc. We didn't see ONE Cow, nor ONE Bull the entire time. What we did see is a HUNDRED feral horses, horse shoot everywhere, and Wolves howling frequently. That ecosystem is completely upside down right now. Sad.

Go spend some time in 3c, you will see hundreds in a day

1998 Ruger Vaquero 45LC 5.5" Barrel $550.00

Long overdue. Get em gone! https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/25/heber-wild-horses-face-removal-forest-service-disputes-protected-status/

Lock down the whole state until we get some rain. Hopefully no dipsticks start the state off this weekend.

I guess I'm old then. Oh well, I can live with that. My parents with Ed in 1969

Not really any unusual wildlife, unless you count 'hardcore through-hiking hippies'. Saw several of those along the way. LOL Saw some of the usual wildlife, but honestly not too much. Mainly because we were either yapping out loud, plus I had my Vizsla with a bell around her neck for lots of the trail. Wildlife generally heard us coming!

I didn't go to the bar today so I got 20 bucks in my pocket. Dandy tho.

Apache Sitgreaves will start Stage 1 on May 19. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r03/apache-sitgreaves/newsroom/releases/apache-sitgreaves-national-forests-will-implement-stage-1

That's awesome man, it's crazy to think one trail goes all the way from the border 35a all the way up to the kaibab. Congrats! How many rattle snakes did you come across?

If you can kill or hunt a 180" buck in this lesser unit that you can draw, that's a no brainer. Most will not kill or see a 180" buck on the late Kaibab or the Strip during their hunt. Especially if you haven't ever stepped foot in any of the units.

the horses are all from the apache reservation to the south, or descendants of those horses

3 OUT 3 Buff-it Ranch!!!!!!! Yippie Ki Yae!!!!! WINNER WINNER Mullie Dead Head Dinner

Went heavy on legs today (RIP me tomorrow). Leg day requires lean protein.