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| Hiking | 6.52 Miles |
609 AEG |
| | Hiking | 6.52 Miles | 5 Hrs 10 Mns | | 1.78 mph |
| 609 ft AEG | 1 Hour 30 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | My last visit to the Rincon was on a warm, cloudless & dry April day and with the upper mountains being socked in with snow & rain for the second straight day, I thought today would be a good time to revisit this area. I had no problem following this trail on my last visit, but today has me going in circles a few times looking for cairns. The trail itself is in pretty good shape and has well over 100 cairns leading to the spring, it is quite a challenge following them but a lot of fun (especially through the boulder section)! It took me awhile, but I made it down to the gneiss slabs & spring only to find them almost dry.....WTF? 2 days of snow & rain that have all the mountain creeks now roaring, but no water in the Rincon? Oh well, I made my way back out off-trailing to a few overlooks then stopping at the historic & prehistoric ruins along the road back and over Marijilda creek as late evening snow starting falling (4000 ft).
Fun hike and winter is definitely the time of the year to visit this area! The drive in & out on forest road 57 was also the 180 of this trip, the road in seemed a lot rockier then my last visit, but the Marijilda creek crossing has been redone and can now be crossed in a car.  |
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