Anybody hiked any of these trails recently?
Posted: Mar 20 2007 1:59 am
Temple Canyon, Cinch Hook trail, Stradling trail, Deep pools trail, Johnson Canyon, or East Rim. The topo map attached to the pine canyon loop trail description above shows some of these canyons less the names. Stradling, Cinch Hook, and Temple Canyon are the three canyons west of Pine Canyon Trail 26 (in that order respectively), deep pools is the first canyon to the east, and Johnson Canyon and East Rim come off the western side of Milk Ranch Point to the Dripping Springs trail. All of them traverse rim to Pine Canyon floor and are accessible from the Pine Canyon Trail 26. (Either from the TH near Pine or from the 279 mile marker on the 87 past Strawberry) Some are marked well but I have been told that others aren't, like the Cinch Hook trail and Stradling trail. I am looking for detailed maps, trail conditions, pictures, elevation changes, distances (especially from Pine TH), and/or landmarks (since I don't have a gps) for some summer hikes with a youth group. Maybe one of you gungho diehards wants to hike them and get a few more trail descriptions under your belt. I'll have to do it eventually, but I thought I would pick the collective brain first.