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| no partners | | This is a gorgeous hike. I've enjoyed it in the past as a backpacking trip. I just went down a short distance, looking at my GPS to make sure I went at least 1,000 vertical feet down. This put me in the bottom of the drainage next to a trail that goes to a saddle by Coronado Butte.
GPS route for this was all messed up. I worked on it but had to eliminate it in one direction. The GPS gets a bad signal down there. It makes spaghetti, with meatballs.
Anyway, I was at the Canyon today for another reason (dropping off a permit application for October) and decided to hike down the New Hance Trail, also known as Red Canyon Trail. There were no cars in the few spaces along the highway for the trail, and there was no one on the trail.
I had decided to hike down about 1,000 vertical feet. From the mangled GPS route, it seems like I hiked more than one mile down. It is very, very steep. I'd been down it once before, in 1994. And I'd been up it once before, in 2011. Both times carrying a heavy backpack. This was fun because I had no agenda, just go down a bit, and hike back up again.
Incidentally, there was no one else at the BCO dropping off permit apps, but I tell you what, I couldn't fax it to save my life. Nothing but a busy signal. |
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