Call this the mega-day! What an outstanding amount of action, planned and unplanned. The day consisted of:

- AZFJ and Disabled Explorers at the Tonto National Forest Salt River Cleanup
- Amateur radio convention in Pheonix
- Dirt route back to Tucson (Baja style!)
- Rice Peak solo night run and camping

I arrived at the cleanup to find Lance and Heidi ready to go. The national forest people had set up some tents and free lunch awaited us after picking up some trash!

Impromptu run to The Gap!!!!

I tried my hand at steeper sections of the granite wall. After making it steeper than I had the last time, and watching the others conquer similarly huge spots I decided I had to go for the steepest possible line.

It was a lot more than the front could clear. I had to take it at an angle, and grind the front end up the wall.

Image credit: CactusCruzer