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| | Hiking | 1.00 Miles | 2 Hrs 15 Mns | | 1.00 mph |
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| partners | | This remote eastern section of our Tonto National Forest north of Globe, AZ, bordering & within the Salt River Canyon Wilderness has a whole lot going on.
Since Nov'12 and over the past four months to date, I've had an awesome time exploring some of this area with our HAZ- Oregon Hiker(Larry), BEEBEE(Brian), and mnlumberjack(Jack). With their help (which also includes our Redroxx44..Letty in the wings  , it has been very rewarding for me to document some of our last four month day trip explorations now as new HAZ "off trail" hike and scenic drive descriptions for others qualified to hopefully consider and also enjoy. Thank you all !!
These now include (with more to hopefully be issued at a later date):
Salt River Canyon Wild - FR303 367 645 346.. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=17099
Hess Canyon to Salt River - SRC Wilderness.. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=17086
Blackjack Wash to Salt River - SRC Wild .. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=17417
Haystack Butte - 5741 feet.. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=17544
Camp Grasshopper - S/R Cyn Wild (FR346).. http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=17600
For this "Blackjack Wash to Salt River" hike, Larry and I had originally viewed a possible hike route on various topos and Google Earth. We both came up with different preferred TH Starting locations for a planned route. On 12/17/12 Brian and I successfully hiked my exploratory route out and back. Afterwards however, I was not satisfied with this route and later defaulted to Larry's route for any future attempts. Then on 1/12/13, Letty and Brian camped at FR346 end-Clay Spring area (now HAZ published above as "Camp Grasshopper" ). They hiked a different canyon area on 1/13 but prior-to their PM departure, Letty noticed a possible shorter off-trail route starting across from http://hikearizona.com/photo.php?ZIP=317943 their campsite area. Knowing that I was planning a revisit, Letty shared her thoughts with me and the rest is history.. she was right-on!
Jack and I planned our scouting trip back out here this day 2/18/13 to accomplish a number of things, but one important task of which was to blaze (with loppers) a new off-trail route from FR346 end at Clay Spring to the majestic Salt River viewpoint area at Blackjack Wash lower end.. http://hikearizona.com/photo.php?ZIP=317950 ..Mission accomplished & documented  |
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