Tramway Maxwell Loop Photoset • chumley • 2016-07-09 • HikeArizona.COM

Tramway Maxwell Loop, AZ

	2016-07-09
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Tramway Maxwell Loop

Payson, AZ

Tramway Maxwell Loop

Payson, AZ

Hiking	11.46 Miles	1,192 AEG

Hiking	11.46 Miles	6 Hrs 38 Mns	2.25 mph
	1,192 ft AEG	1 Hour 32 Mns Break

Linked

linked

Tramway Trail #32

Willow Valley

Maxwell Trail #37

Partners

partners

	Blanco	John9L
	LindaAnn

Looking for a short day trip to cool off in the clear water of WCC we decided on the Tramway Maxwell Loop. Knowing this was an ideal summer hike for pups, I decided to dognap Cup and Blanco and give them a little exercise in the woods.

Turned out to be a great day. The WCC portion of the trail was more overgrown than I remember with less of a developed route to follow. Especially upstream of Maxwell. But once we reached Willow, there was a surprisingly good use trail most of the way. I actually found this area of canyon to be much more scenic and interesting than the upper WCC part. I'll have to come back and try the loop from farther up that hits the cold swimmers.

There was a lot of algae on the rocks and underwater footing was as slippery as I can ever remember it being. And Willow has a ton of poison ivy. Rumor has it 9L is currently working on his 14th application of Tecnu since arriving home!

Geology

Geology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Tafoni

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