Day 4: Today was a very short day, I only had to hike a few miles to the road. From there I continued by hitchhiking. it must have taken 20 minutes for someone to pick me up and take me directly to my destination, the Stage Stop Inn in Patagonia. Unfortunately, check-in is only possible from 11 a.m., now it’s only 8 a.m. …. Behind the counter I could already see my bag, which had been delivered here by American Airlines.

I used the time to explore the city and do some shopping. There are lots of small stores, restaurants and cafés here and everything has a small-artist charm. I immediately thought of the town of Idylwild on the PCT in California. At Red Mountain Foods you can only pay cash, but they had vegan ice cream and fruit!

Shopping and eating in Patagonia

I also met the hikers Bonny and Clyde and we decided to share my hotel room. After checking in, we were busy until 5pm doing laundry and getting everything we would need for the next part of the Arizona Trail. Then there was the sending of the parcels to the various stations, which unfortunately I couldn’t do at the beginning as my bag was delivered late.


Then the hole in my sleeping mat had to be found and mended. Finally, the hiker’s box at the hotel had to be rummaged through. Fortunately, everything went well and so we went for a meal and then a drink in the Wagon Wheel Salon.

Day 5: Despite, or perhaps because of, the wet night, we were up early again the next morning. A few errands had to be run and of course we had a delicious breakfast before hitchhiking back to the trail.

I met another hiker there, the poor guy had walked the old Arizona Trail and then turned off onto the new bypass. He almost ended up back in Patagonia, or at least on the road there. I was able to explain his mistake and we hiked together for a while in the direction he had come from, on the Trail Bad of the Tempural Gulch Trail. A sweet little river flowed here, where I took a short lunch break after 16 km.

Today it was only going to be 26 km on the Arzizona Trail

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