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| Hiking | 20.39 Miles |
4,098 AEG |
| | Hiking | 20.39 Miles | 10 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.99 mph |
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| no partners | | | Well sometimes the hike that you planned ,doesn't wind up being the one you do. We had set out to do the Rock Creek Loop. The plan was to do it clockwise. I had planned to climbing up the Barnhardt as fast as we could to escape the heat. We made it the top in pretty good time. We went past where the Sandy Saddle intersection was (or what was left of it) and I mentioned to Mike that that trail was hard to follow before the fire and now it's suppose to be gone. I said that I had no interest in that kind of route finding today, so we continued down the Mazatzal divide. I had GPSJoe track loaded, but he hadn't done this section of the divide on his loop. That didn't matter because the Mazatzal dived trail is well defined and easy to follow. When we got close to the other end of the Sandy Saddle / Mazatzal divide intersection, the trail disappeared. I zoomed into GPSJoes tracks to the 20 foot level. We came to the intersection and there was no signs. I studied the maps and the GPS track decided that I needed to turn left to stay on the divide. The trail dumped us right into a dry wash with huge rocks and boulders. We had a heck of a time staying trail even with Joe's track. I used Joes track as a suggested guide , because it looks the trail has changed since Joe last hiked this. The GPS track did keep us in the right direction. After some bushwhacking and major rock hopping down creek beds, we ran into another intersection. Unfortunately it was the Barnhardt trail intersection. I had my GPS zoomed in so tight, I had not seen the bigger picture of taking a wrong turn and going down the Sandy Saddle Trail. We took the Barnhardt back. Along the way we heard some people coming down the waterfall chute. We got back to the Jeep by 5:30 and decided to burn off some of our frustration by doing a couple more miles down the half moon trail. |
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Wildflowers Observation Moderate
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"Everywhere is walking distance...If you have the time"
-Stephen Wright |
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