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| | Hiking | 3.84 Miles | 2 Hrs 55 Mns | | 1.77 mph |
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| no partners | | Stopped in at Costco yesterday and found a daypack on sale for $29.99 and since mine is showing some age (mostly due to Catsclaw), I bought one. Not totally satisfied with the Chinese construction and not sure about the water reservoir but it held water overnight so I thought I would take it out on a test run.
I drove out to the Mining Camp Restaurant, reset the GPS and slipped the new pack on.... fits good and feels good, although there isn't much in it yet and hit the trail for Praying Hands rock formation. Lost Dutchman State Park has been doing a lot of trail work and they show it, lots of erosion control timbers have been placed across the trail and they're not high enough to be a problem to step over like the ones on Bluff Spring Trail (aka Cardiac Hill) 
Soon the Treasure Loop Trail gives way to the Prospectors Trail which continues up hill in the right direction but then an unnamed trail breaks off for the rest of the hike. This trail has not had the same tender loving care as the others as it's full of loose rocks and lots of gravel to slip on and the trail is quite steep now 
Eventually the trail leads between the Praying Hands rock formation on your left and the Tower rock formation on your right, with lots of "slick rock" in between. I removed my pack and got the camera going as I hiked around the area even managed to get on the mountain side of the Tower, a steep and slippery climb with some Manzanita and Catsclaw to spice things up. Can't get any higher than that now unless ya bring climbing gear to scale the vertical rocks. Rock climbers do ascend the Praying Hands and the Tower and I found a tight slot back on the mountain side with a rope still hanging 
Now it's time to go back down that trail with the loose rocks and it caused me to slip on several occasions but fortunately no falls and once back on the maintained trails, I was soon back at the Mining Camp.
OK. the pack survived an easy hike and it isn't leaking, so I guess I'll keep it. |
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| On every trip into the Superstitions, I find another Gold Mine. Today the mine was filled with Memories. I can not wait for the next trip. |
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