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| Hiking | 27.83 Miles |
6,123 AEG |
| | Hiking | 27.83 Miles | 11 Hrs 46 Mns | | 2.94 mph |
| 6,123 ft AEG | 2 Hrs 18 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | We parked at the City Creek TH. On the way to the TH about 10 deer crossed the road.
We started out on the Mazatzal divide. Soon I made it to the Red Hills trail. There was a little bit of water in the creek. The temps felt coolish at 6,000 feet. Fan was tired so she stopped at the creek and rested.
There's been recent activity past the Brush Spring/Red Hills trail. I saw horse prints and droppings. This was my first time going down Knob Mountain on the Red Hills trail. The trail felt like an old jeep road. Soon I was at 5,500 feet by the Fuller seep. There's an old corral by the seep. This is where the horse prints and droppings stopped. The creek / seep had some flow to it. There was two deer's by the seep.
There was some dead fall that messed me up and I had to find the trail. Soon I came across an intersection that I didn't expect. It was the Midnight Trail intersection. I lost the trail another time crossing a creek, but used the GPS to find it again.
The trail went through a fence line that had an opening and the trail went from Heckle to Jive. The overgrowth obscured the trail and there was considerable deadfall. I went another 1/2 mile and I could see the Wet Bottom Creek (my destination). The trail started to drop down, but there was deadfall every couple of feet. I could still see cairns. My GPS showed that I was about a 1/2 mile "as the crow flies" to the WBC. At the rate I was moving it could have easily taken me an hour to get to the creek. I was a 1/2 hour past my turn around time, so I reluctantly turned around.
I was able to stay on trail all the way back to the Knob Mountain. I got to the Brush Spring intersection a lot faster than I expected. I took a late lunch (4PM). I explored a little on Knob MNT. I walked around seeing if I could find anything or the foot path to the Maz. Div. trail. I didn't find anything.
By now a cold wind had started and I felt chilly, so I headed back down to the Jeep where Fan was. I heard, but didn't see, one rattlesnake on the way out. On the drive out we saw two more deer's cross the road almost exactly where we saw them in the morning!
I'm sure that that the red Hills trail is 15 miles long. At the Dutchman Grave / Red Hills intersection, the sign stated it was 11 miles to the Fuller Seep. And it's 4 miles from the Maz. Div / Red Hills intersection to the Fuller Seep.
The middle three miles of this trail is one of the hardest trails I've seen with the route finding, dead fall, overgrowth and the constant ups and downs over the mountains. |
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"Everywhere is walking distance...If you have the time"
-Stephen Wright |
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