camping hiking, outdoor sportToday's the first day of many that are going to be below 100, so we're thinking about going camping hiking at our favorite spot for early fall camping at Oak Flats, AZ. It's a mere 25 miles from home, and the elevation is about 4,000 feet, so the weather will be perfect for camping hiking. We are always curious about our elevation when we're camping hiking, so last month, I bought this useful watch online that will tell us our altitude. It's called the TECH 4 O AW1O Alti-Watch and it gives us the exact altitude of wherever we are. It's good to know how high we are when we are camping hiking so we have an idea of how long it will take to cook our food, what the weather's like, and how much elevation gain we have made or lost as we hike along the beautiful mountain trails that are all over the central and eastern parts of Arizona.

I found this altimeter watch online at a store that stocks a lot of camping and outdoor sports' supplies. It's called All Star Sports Outlet and they are found at www.allstarsportsoutlet.com. Since we do a lot of camping hiking, this watch was the perfect because not only does it tell the time and the elevation, it also gives the barometric pressure, temperature, and time and date. It will tell us the total ascent and descent, too, that we made while camping hiking.

We spend quite a lot of time outdoors camping, so this new watch will be good to have along when we're hiking, our favorite outdoor sport. Since we do most of our camping hiking in the mountains, the weather can change fast, especially in the summer when afternoon thunderstorms are more the rule than not. Having the barometric pressure and the temperature right on someone's wrist will let us know when it's time to head back to camp to avoid getting rained on and blown around in the intense thunderstorms that keep the forests so green all summer in Arizona. 

Florida has the most lightening strikes of any state in the US, followed by Arizona, and most of those occur in the mountains. Shortly before a storm strikes, the barometric pressure drops, so with this altimeter watch, we'll know when to look for cover or find a safe place to wait out the thunderstorm. We've been debating whether to get a weather radio or this watch, and given the fact that the watch gives us instant information for precisely where we are, unlike weather radios that broadcast for larger locations.