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| Hiking | 6.97 Miles |
1,290 AEG |
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| no partners | | After reviewing my options, I settled upon a Watershed-Boy Scout loop hike. My wife dropped me off at the Watershed trailhead on a beautiful late autumn afternoon, and I promptly disappeared into the Bradshaw Mountains. I climbed the gently ascending, forested route of the Watershed Trail to a divide ridge, and turned onto the Sevenmile Gulch Trail, encountering a couple of groups of courteous atv riders along the way. I cruised along ridgetops on Sevenmile, and then turned onto the Ranch Trail. The top of the Ranch Trail offered an outstanding view of the area, before descending a little draw to a junction with the Boy Scout Trail.
Boy Scout (my favorite section of this loop) seemed much less traveled than the previous trails, but was still well marked, and I descended a shallow canyon bottom lined with ponderosa pine and gambel oak. The canyon eventually opened into an open grassy flat, where the Boy Scout Trail (actually the Turley Trail at this point) met an unmarked road from the west. I turned and followed the unmarked road a short distance to where it terminated at a residential street: 1232 Pine Ridge Loop. Signs told me I had unknowingly been on State Trust Land (oooh, I'm so scared!). I followed Pine Ridge Loop drive through Oak Knoll Village back to the Senator Highway, feeling rather conspicuous wearing a large backpack and looking filthy. Prescott College is more the place for that. I dodged traffic while walking along the busy Senator Highway, and reached the Watershed Trailhead at sunset. My wife soon arrived, and we were off to dinner at one of our Prescott favorites, Chi's Cuisine. It was a great introduction to a trail system that will hopefully soon be my backyard. |
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