Fish Creek Upper Bridge Loop Photoset • chumley • 2014-03-22 • HikeArizona.COM

Fish Creek Upper Bridge Loop, AZ

	2014-03-22
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Fish Creek Upper Bridge Loop, AZ

Canyoneering	11.74 Miles	1,913 AEG

Canyoneering	11.74 Miles	8 Hrs 40 Mns	1.35 mph
	1,913 ft AEG

Canyon Hiking - Non-technical; no rope; easy scrambling; occasional hand use

B - Up to light current; wading/swimming; possible wet/dry suit

II - Normally requires a half day

Linked

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Fish Creek Canyon - Upper Bridge

Fish Creek Hill

Fish Creek via Lost Dutch

JF Trail #106

Partners

partners

clairebear

Claire read about a loop in some Supes book, and I'd never done Fish Creek, so I did a quick glance at some tracks on HAZ, and it looked reasonable, so we headed out.

The creek/canyon is beautiful, but very slow going for the first 2 miles or so. As it opens up a bit, the pace increases. We filtered some water where the hike leaves the creek, in anticipation for the long, warm hike back around and down to the bridge.

Plenty of cairns going up the hill make it pretty easy to follow, but the spring grasses make it tough in some spots. A steady eye is necessary for those without a GPS-track to follow (like me).

Once back on FS213, you wonder how somebody in a Jeep can't get out there :whistle:

. It's an easy and relatively flat hike back to the 88. The hike down Fish Creek Hill is great too, save for the dust from the occasional passing car. It was late enough in the day that traffic was light. I helped push a truck out of a ditch. Walking down FCH is also nicer than driving because you can stop and look over the edge more. There are no fewer than 8 vehicles that met their demise on this stretch of road, left to rust on the hillside hundreds of feet below. And at least one boat.

The gem of this hike is the first couple of miles of creek, but the rest of the loop makes it a solid hiking day.

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Humor

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Fish Creek Canyon

Wildflowers Observation Isolated

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