Bear Canyon (Middle) - Mogollon Rim Photoset • BiFrost • 2015-07-12 • HikeArizona.COM

Bear Canyon (Middle) - Mogollon Rim, AZ

	2015-07-12
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Bear Canyon (Middle) - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Bear Canyon (Middle) - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Hiking	10.66 Miles	1,453 AEG

Hiking	10.66 Miles
	1,453 ft AEG

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Linked

linked

Houston Brothers Trail to Aspen Spring

Houston Brothers Trail #171

Cabin Loop - Mogollon Rim

Houston Bros Trail #171 / McFarland Spr Loop

Fred Haught Trail #141

Partners

partners

FOTG

slowandsteady

Great hike in Bear Canyon with Lee and the dogs. We had been working on getting out there with the pups and Bear Canyon with all the water was perfect hike. Bruce did this hike recently and it looked like a winner especially for Cup...she loves the water! Bear Canyon is definitely the nicest of the rim canyons I've seen so far with some rocky cliffs and interesting pools to navigate.

After exploring Bear we linked up with Houston Brothers Trail which is cool in it's own right. Lunch was at Aspen Spring with large meadows and an old cabin site. We continued up Houston Brothers enjoying more meadows and tall ferns along the way before dropping back down into East Bear Canyon. Once in the bottom we followed it downstream back to where we hiked out at the Bear Canyon - East Bear Canyon confluence. On top it was short hike back to the vehicle and some beverages to finish off a great day of hiking

Fauna

Fauna [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Atlantis Fritillary Butterfly Weidemeyer's Admiral Butterfly

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Houston Draw

	Aspen Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	decent flow out of the rock source

	East Bear Canyon	Medium flow	Medium flow
	good flow...plenty of water with numerous pools

	Houston Draw Head	Dripping	Dripping
	small pool that could work in a pinch

	McFarland Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	a bit muddy but the spring had some flow

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