Grandview and Old Grandview Photoset • arizona_water • 2016-03-25 • HikeArizona.COM

Grandview and Old Grandview, AZ

	2016-03-25
	14 by arizona_water

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Grandview and Old Grandview, AZ

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Backpack		3 Days

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Grandview Trail

Old Grandview Trail - Lower

Tonto Trail

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This was my first time on the Grandview trail. I did not have route scout going (this was my pre-route scout life), so I'm not quite sure of the total mileage for this trip.

Friday: Arrived at Grandview Point at last light on Friday evening. Hiked to Cottonwood Creek in the dark and noticed many places where my high beam shown off the side of the path in to total darkness. Don't fall!

The hike down only took three hours.

Saturday: Day hike from Cottonwood Creek down to the Tonto trail. We headed West and hit the Old Grandview Trail. My buddy Ben packed his large-format film camera and gear down there... :wlift:

He's a professional so it must have been worth it

We at lunch on the banks of the Mighty Colorado.

Unfortunately for Ben, he started to feel super sick on the hike back up from the River, but somehow managed to get his heavy camera bag and himself off the Old Grandview without any of us sharing his gear.
When we arrived back at the junction of Cottonwood Creek and the Tonto Trail, the rest of our crew headed back to our campsite where we had left our gear that morning. I hit up the Cottonwood Creek narrows. It's nice down there.

Sunday: Got an early start and explored all the cool stuff on Horseshoe Mesa, then took our time back up the Grandview. Stopped for Diablo Burgers in Flag because that's a necessity.

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Grapevine Rapids

	Cottonwood Creek	Medium flow	Medium flow
	This creek sung me to sleep <3

	Grapevine Creek	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	Definitely a trickle here. Enough to filter, but we didn't need to. I was not expecting Grapevine to be flowing at all, so this was exciting!

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