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| partners | | After the easy hike up to Webb, we drove westward and parked at the end of the road for the hike to Clark Peak, one of my favorites up here. I had wanted to show Liz one of my favorite free camping spots, off to the south just before you get to the end of the road (CP Flat Loop), but it was cordoned off. The Clark Peak Trail is really cool, always being overgrown at the end of monsoon season. It sees little traffic, which makes it even more appealing. Lots of summer wildflowers are encountered on the way to the peak, and the bee action was more than enough to make Liz happy (even if they were so hyperactive that they wouldn't stay on a flower long enough to get a decent photo of them)! After hiking around the south side of the peak, you reach a saddle, and from there just turn right and follow the ridge to the peak (very short distance). You have to fight your way through a thick bunch of locust just before the top. There was once a fire lookout cabin here, which was pushed off the south side of the peak. Much debris remains. The log in the sign in jar is fine, but there was no pen. The last entry was from Mark Nichols, who works at the Cochise Power Plant, and has been hiking southern Arizona for many years. He has his own private list of over 1600 high points he has done. The entry before that was from a hike here last year with Tucson Backpackers that I was on (the same group we encountered the day before down along Ash Creek). After returning to the truck, it was time to say goodbye to this sky island and head home, but not before a swing by Riggs Flat Lake for Liz. While we were heading over to Clark Peak, the clouds thickened up and there were showers visible over toward the Galiuros. On the way down Saturday I told Liz there was no way she could make it rain this weekend. I should have known that proclamation was doomed as soon as I said it, since strange things seem to happen when the weather wizard and rainmaker get together!  We got off the mountain okay without getting wet, but sure enough, we encountered rain west of Benson, and Liz got her hit and run rainbow picture. Thus ended a nice mellow weekend of camping and hiking!  |
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