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| no partners | | | My brother and I hiked this in the opposite direction from Joe's description. And yes the trails are again pretty overgrown past the Bluff Springs-Terrapin intersection. We were too warm for pant legs most of the time so we just let the legs bleed, no pain, no gain huh? We climbed from the Peralta T.H. On the Bluff Springs "cardiac hill" to the Terrapin intersection and took the Terrapin up and down and up and down past the NE base of the needle and saw some great views of the Needle, Bluff Spring Mtn and the canyon. Everything was dry but the springs and the big trees still had their orange and yellow leaves. It was cool in the canyons but pretty darn warm on the ridges and in the Valleys. We had lunch at the bottom Bluff Spring Mtn. canyon in the creekbed in the sand. Then we continued on through the Marsh valley area on the Dutchman past the Cavalry trail intersection toward Charebios in La Barge Canyon. We loved this Canyon with the big Sycamore and Cottonwood trees and massive boulders, we plan to 'canyoneer' this when the creek is flowing. We found Charlebois canyon and the spring at the mouth of the canyon which had plenty of crisp cold water in many pools. It was pretty crowded there so, with no rain forcast, we camped between there and La Barge Spring in the creekbed under a bright orange Sycamore tree. We had almost enough water to get back but decided to scout La Barge Spring in the AM anyway. Like the book said it's about 200 yards NE of the Red Tanks-Dutchman intersection. We followed the creek bed in. Not as much water as Charlebois but some nice flowing leaf covered pools. A bit woodier tasting than the Charlebios water but OK! We filtered a few liters and moved on to find the Bluff Springs trail again. We also found the area around Bluff Spring to be rather beautiful also. Views all along are spectacular! Great Trip. |
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