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| Hiking | 13.70 Miles |
1,600 AEG |
| | Hiking | 13.70 Miles | 9 Hrs | | 1.52 mph |
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| no partners | | Starting at Hannagan Meadow Lodge, we walked across the highway to the trailhead and ventured south on the Steeple Mesa Trail. At the junction with Upper Grant Creek Trail, we turned east onto it. This track was a mess last time we used it several years ago, but the trail crew groomed it in a recent season, and it's in good shape now. Due to lack of traffic, it does tend to disappear in the overgrowth from time to time. Past Grant Creek Cabin we turned onto Paradise Trail, which also is little used. We discovered the extensive fires of a few years ago did not spare Paradise Park. Everthing north of the trail is burned. The 1500 foot climb up Grant Creek Trail is always tedious, made even more so this day by much deadfall. We could step over or around all of it (and removed from the path what we could), but it was still a bother. At P-Bar Lake we turned west onto Foote Creek Trail and stayed with it back to the trailhead.
It was a cool, lovely day, and we encountered no other persons on the trail. We also saw no wildlife, which disappoined as we always expect to see bear in the Blue. |
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