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| Hiking | 10.00 Miles |
1,900 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.00 Miles | 8 Hrs 20 Mns | | 1.71 mph |
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| partners | | In December'07 while vehicle camping under Byous Butte for Christmas week with friends (re: my then typical holiday week at "Camp Grasshopper" [ photo ] ), one of our planned day hikes was to attempt the upper mining section down to Whetrock Canyon to visit the old wrecked "Modern Dairy- Globe,AZ" milk truck that I had only seen in  HAZ pictures-  [ photo ]
Here is a quote from my Dec 26th 2007 triplog:
"It was a beautiful blue sky day with no wind as we topped-out at the saddle. Heading down the backside of this saddle it was only about .125mls before this old, rocky mining road became completely washed-out and disappeared with bushwhacking required to reach the lower mine and our planned stopping point at that old Dairy Truck. Just too much of a hassle for us to enjoy continuing."  In hindsight now 6+ years later, that rocky old, washed out, bushwhack mining road really did not disappear. What happened is that shortly after the 1st mine adit (see my posted GPS Route), the old road took a 90 degree turn to the right downhill, and I just missed it and continued straight "into a blood sucking jungle" ;) .
Honestly I never thought I would have the opportunity again to correctly hike this loop, but thanks to the invite from our HAZ- friendofThundergod(Lee), his long time Supes backpacking buddy-Jim, and Oregon Hiker(Larry) offering to drive us, I was off on another Whetrock Canyon adventure. This time a much more enjoyable visit and success! :thanx: [ photo ] |
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Dripping Spring |
Dripping |
Dripping |
| | | A "slow drip only" from wet rock/cliff wall and it would be difficult and time consuming to await a liter of water to filter or treat from this actual perennial spring source location. As of this date there was a number of water seeps and pooling within the slick rock intersection area of Dripping Spring (ie, at the intersection of Fraser Canyon and Randolph Canyon). |
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Whetrock Canyon |
Pools to trickle |
Pools to trickle |
| | | Some pool seeps in the middle and lower sections only. It should also be mentioned that it did rain some the day prior. | | _____________________
| (Outside.. "there is No Place Like It!!") |
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