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I've seen some mention of this trail in the triplogs for Powers Garden, however there isn't an "offical" description of it here... My guide book lists it as difficult to follow in many places through the grassland. Is this true? Would someone with decent route finding (aka, me) be able to follow it reasonably well on a bright spring day? Also, how difficult is the stretch between where the trail ends at Rattlesnake Canyon and the cabin at the Garden? I'm hoping to make a trip out there in mid-March and although I've been in through the Tortilla Trail, I'm always a sucker for a loop, and the Corral Canyon approach sounds like a nice way to mix things up...

set it up.
trail is easy to follow. cairns the size of a vw bug.
im only available April 18th, March is totally booked.
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Wendy, fwiw the Galiuros remind me much of the E. Superstitions. While hiking up some of the canyons have a unique feel, the openness of the meadows and the rolling hills, views look very much like the Two Bar Ridge area and Powers ranch area looks very much like Reavis.
Ive even felt areas of the Galiuros (the little Ive experienced) are much like the Sierra Ancha in places.

so, do you have free time in April?

I don't remember any difficulties finding the trail, but memory may have faded due to oxygen deprivation on the long brutal slog up the mountain near Kennedy Peak.

Redroxx logged that trip on here I believe, must have been a couple years ago, December I think.

This is the route some of us did last October. The trail was easy to follow except for the uphill part.

http://hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=76825

The trail was easy to follow except for the uphill part.

uphill part? Seems like that would be an awful lot of it... ;)

My dearest aeronaut squirrel: no time in April, sadly. I'm doing a 5-dayer on the AZT that month, and it is taking up a lot of my time (for prep and recovery)...You should join us for the weekend part of that one - we're getting a cabin at the top! I could do the first weekend in May, if it isn't too hot by then. My original thought was to plan it for March 21st weekend... And I agree about the similarities between Galiuros and the Supes - the biggest difference really is that there are about 10% as many people in the Galiuros on a given weekend

march 21st is my Safford Morenci trail with lucky. been on my list for a while, whereas Powers Garden Ive finally scratched off...

writelots wrote:the biggest difference really is that there are about 10% as many people in the Galiuros on a given weekend

and, you dont have to listend to rescue choppers fly around all day - looking for 'experienced' hikers
(that really takes away from the designated wilderness feel, wouldnt you agree?)

I'd be interested in going into the Garden from the West end rather than the east end, and doing a lasso loop coming in on trail 288. That way its new ground for me. The trails we hiked were all good when we did them in October.

Corral is easy to follow now. Good luck coming in from the West side. The most encompassing trip would be from the south to north end. Jackson Cabin, up Redfield over the Divide, up Rattlesnake and out Powers Hill. However need HC at the very least and 4X4 to get to both true TH's. That way you would see the cabin and mine, the site of the shootout which is south of the Garden, the cabins along the way, the old mine stuff in Rattlesnake, then the Garden, then hike out a most gorgeous section of Rattlesnake Canyon.