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| no partners | | We decided to take advantage of the weak winter and make an early May trip to the LCR. Spent Thursday night in the bed of the truck in Cameron and got an early start on Friday. It took us six hours to get to the river from the TH. We left a water cache of 3 liters per person half way down the trail. The author is definitely correct in that if you do not see a cairn every couple of minutes, you are not on the trail! We reached the blue river around 1:00 and took a nice long rest in the shade. The water felt a bit warmer to me than the water at Havasupai, and even better for swimming. The pumped river water tasted like salty mineral water. It is drinkable after adding lots of Crystal Light and/or Tang. We drank about a gallon of pumped LCR water during the trip with no ill effects. We headed downstream and made it about four miles before setting up camp on a nice beach at a big bend in the river. The first mile downstream from the base of Salt Trail Canyon is bbaaaadddly overgrown with reeds but after that the trail was easily navigable.
The next day we continued downstream and made it to the confluence around 10:30 AM where we saw about 30 people from 4 different Colorado River rafts docked at the confluence. On our way out of the confluence we ran into the AZ Fish & Game crew performing their annual survey of the Humpback Chub. They said they were about to take lunch, and offered to cook us up a hot meal! Great guys. We continued upstream back to the mouth of Salt Trail Canyon. We only ran into one other backpacker the whole weekend. She started in Cameron and had already been hiking 4 days. The next morning we hit the trail at 6:40, and made it out of the canyon in 4.5 hours... 1.5 hours faster than it took us to hike down. That is a testament to how difficult the footing on this trail truly is! It was a great trip and I plan to go back at some point to head upstream to the springs. |
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