Skull Mesa Cottonwood Spring Loop Photoset • BiFrost • 2016-05-01 • HikeArizona.COM

Skull Mesa Cottonwood Spring Loop, AZ

	2016-05-01
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Skull Mesa Cottonwood Spring Loop, AZ

Hiking	12.54 Miles	3,091 AEG

Hiking	12.54 Miles	6 Hrs 24 Mns	2.13 mph
	3,091 ft AEG	30 Mns Break

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Skull Mesa Trail #248

Cottonwood Trail #247

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Late start but we wanted to take advantage off slightly cooler temps to do another desert hike. Started a Spur Cross TH and headed up Cave Creek to the Cottonwood Spring trail turnoff. Then headed over to the uphill portion to top of Skull Mesa.

Took a break on the mesa and enjoyed the great views. After that we headed back down and looped back around past Cottonwood Spring where we saw a rattlesnake. It was very green in color so wondering if it was Mojave rattlesnake (Gummo would know)? We let that guy alone and continued the last 4 miles back to the TH.

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[ checklist ] Black-tailed Rattlesnake

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