Upper Lime Creek Photoset • chumley • 2013-10-12 • HikeArizona.COM

Upper Lime Creek, AZ

	2013-10-12
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Upper Lime Creek, AZ

Backpack	9.35 Miles	939 AEG

Backpack	9.35 Miles	2 Days
	939 ft AEG		25 LBS Pack

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Nice overnight exploring a new area for me.

Lime Creek flows perennially in sections of this drainage, sometimes disappearing underground, but other times surfacing in a beautiful remote canyon thick with huge shady sycamore and cottonwood trees and smaller bushes.

I spooked a beautiful red-tailed hawk, we found a Fred, and there was an owl near our campsite that hooted all night long.

About 3 miles in the drainage opens up and the creek goes underground for an extended period, so we decided rather than continue to the next oasis we would go back and camp at the last one.

Did a bunch of exploring and checking out adjacent areas. Perfect weather for this one right now. Thanks Kyle for the suggestion and the company.

Fauna

Fauna [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Striped Whipsnake

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Cag Shot Camp-fire Campsite Route - finding Labels

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Fifty One Ranch Humboldt Mountain Lime Creek Rover Peak West Cedar Mountain

Autumn Foliage Observation Isolated

	Ash Spring Creek	Light flow	Light flow
	Didn't find the actual spring here, but water begins to appear in the creek just below this spot on the map. Filtering would be no problem.

	Cougar Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	Occasional pools and trickle about 1/2 mile up Cougar Canyon from Lime. Otherwise Cougar was dry. Lime Creek at the Cougar junction has plenty of flow in a perennial stream.

	Little Cougar Canyon	Medium flow	Medium flow
	Two separate springs about 25-feet apart here were flowing at easily 20+ gpm. Above here the creek is dry, below here it's a beautiful flowing stream. Water does not appear to come from upstream flow but rather from a unique source on the side of the canyon.

	Long Canyon	Dry	Dry
	Long Canyon was dry as was Lime at the junction. This is a wide dry area, and the springs marked on the Topo maps near here are nowhere to be found. No sign of water here, and I wouldn't expect to see it except during storm flooding.

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