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| Hiking | 10.31 Miles |
1,726 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.31 Miles | 4 Hrs 22 Mns | | 2.67 mph |
| 1,726 ft AEG | 30 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | The girlfriend invited me up to the Canyon for a weekend of camping at Mathers. I said I would go, if I could choose where we camped and sneak a hike in Saturday morning. She agreed, so I was headed back to the Canyon for a second straight weekend Friday night. The plan was to do Battleship Saturday morning and camp somewhere near the Grandview fire tower.
We woke up Saturday morning to some pretty wintery conditions. I knew from the start that I was not going to be doing Battleship, so we packed up all of our stuff to check on her friends and find a plan B. Along the way we hiked out to Shoshone Point with the dogs. We obviously had the place to ourselves at 6:30 in the morning during a snowstorm and thus really enjoyed the hike in. However, there were literally no views at the overlook and almost zero visibility because of the storm. As luck would have it, by the time we got to her friends campsite, one party had already left for home and the other three were doing the same soon. The storm took the wind out of their weekend vacation plans and we now had the rest of the day to do a hike. So we headed to Desert View to sit out the rest of the bad weather and then knock out Cedar Mountain.
Cedar Mountain may not exactly be a premier Canyon summit, but we enjoyed it and the hike in. It did take a minute to find the exact tipping off point from the campground, but I managed to get us on track. I was using Route Scout for the first time, because when I reached the Canyon I realized I only had waypoints from the routes I downloaded and not the actual track. I can't even begin to understand what happened there. Nevertheless, I was able to use the find "near" trails selection in R.S. to grab all the routes I needed for the weekend and all from a very faint signal in the Desert View parking lot. The trail/old road is in pretty good shape and the hike in was fast. There are a few great spots to catch some views to the west and down canyon. The climb to the summit is off-trail, but its not that bad at all and the surprisingly great views from the top make up for it. It was very windy on the top, so we snapped some pictures, signed the register, ate a quick snack and headed back, with a close eye on the changing sky.
Overall a great hike for what was starting to seem like a wasted day. I am unsure if I was allowed to bring dogs to Cedar, but there were no signs telling me I could not. It is below the rim, but there is also a road and it was last minute, so I gambled. |
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