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Escudilla Trail, AZ
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Escudilla TrailAlpine, AZ
Escudilla Trail
Alpine, AZ
Hiking6.60 Miles 1,315 AEG
Hiking6.60 Miles
1,315 ft AEG
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I grew up in the in Springerville so I could always see this mountain from all over town, but I have never hiked it. So I headed up - 1 since my wife had to work :cry: The hike started off very nice with beautiful aspen trees all over. We met only one person at the start of the hike taking pictures in the aspen trees other than that we had the whole mountain to our self's.

The hike was a steady incline and was great with the thick aspens, and ferns all over :) One of the best views of the day after you leave the thick group of aspen trees and you head into an open clearing before you go into the burned area there is an open grassy meadow. I took a min and stood there and took in the sight,awesome!

Then we headed into the burned area from the wallow fire, this whole area was burned, but the odd part is the trees were burned and the bark had fallen off, but the trees where not black just dead and dried out. I took a photo and I did think in an odd way the trees where beautiful.

On the last flat meadow area before the last incline to the tower we saw a gang of bull Elk heading north that was the only wildlife we saw besides a few birds hanging around.

We made it to the lookout tower, the view was a little hazy due the the San Juan fire to the west. The nats were swarming us all over us, put on lots of bug spray if you are going up! The views are nice and this is a great place to see even with the burned area, the baby aspens are coming in all over. Great day!!!
 Fauna
 Fauna [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Elk
 Named place
 Named place [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Escudilla Fire Lookout  Escudilla Mountain
 Meteorology
 Meteorology [ checklist ]
[ checklist ]  Fire - Wildfire
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