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| no partners | | | My second day at Camp GH in upper Cherry Crk Canyon. Decided to take a loop hike out of camp to check out a couple of likely nearby places for Indian Ruins and check the drive-ability of an old road that leads from FR203 down to Cherry Creek. The first leg of the loop went about 2 miles down FR203 to the Grapevine TH with detours out to the top of a couple of points overlooking Cherry Creek to look for ruins. I don't normally like hiking on roads but it's amazing how much more you can see when you're walking instead of driving. Maybe this possible closing of FR203 to motor vehicles could be a good think. Didn't find any ruins on my off road detours but there were some good views. There was a light rain off and on so wore one of my Oregon worthy rain jackets which was also fairly good at repelling catclaw thorns although it probably isn't as water proof now. The rain was welcome because it cleared the dust/pollen out of the air but unfortunately only for a short time. Returned to camp on the old road that drops down to Cherry Creek then follows a drainage back up to FR203 across FR203 from Camp GH. The road was drive-able down to the creek for ATVs and maybe a high clearance 4x4 who's owner doesn't mind lots of AZ pin striping. A couple nice places to camp down there near the creek but if you can't get your vehicle back up that road you're in big trouble so I wouldn't recommend it for car camping. The section of the old road going north from the creek back up to FR203 is over grown with catclaw but can pass for a hiking trail due to heavy use by cattle. Got back to camp after the last rain shower, had dinner, and read a book while waiting for friendofThundergod to show up for a ruin hike we had planned for Saturday. |
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