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| - Turtlehead Peak. By the Numbers.
2.5: length of the hike, in miles, each way.
2,000: approximate number of feet you climb.
6,500: approximate elevation, in feet, at the peak.
92: my pride at reaching the peak, quantified.*
5: hours it took, round-trip.
4: hours it should've taken, if we hadn't gotten lost on the way down.
1: items we had on the list of 10 essentials to bring on a desert hike.
15: minutes before sundown, when we started to panic a bit.
12, 16: ages, in years, of the hikers we finally found, to our relief.
7: seconds you can hug a twelve year old boy before he starts screaming "STRANGER DANGER! STRANGER DANGER!"
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*Believe me when I tell you that this hike is NO JOKE.
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