Hidden Valley via Mormon Trail Photoset • joebartels • 2017-03-11 • HikeArizona.COM

Hidden Valley via Mormon Trail, AZ

	2017-03-11
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Hidden Valley via Mormon Trail

Phoenix, AZ

Hidden Valley via Mormon Trail

Phoenix, AZ

Hiking	3.85 Miles	971 AEG

Hiking	3.85 Miles	1 Hour 37 Mns		2.38 mph
	971 ft AEG		1 LBS Pack

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The midday crowds are at Camelback this week for spring break. SoMo is starting to slow down midday as the winter seasonals consider 90 degrees boiling.

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Brittlebush Mormon Tea - E. fasciculata

Wildflowers Observation Substantial
Brittlebush and globemallow are abundant on the first half mile. They last about a weeks tops. Further up the trail you can see mega buds on both so the show will go on for a good ten to fourteen days.

Shockingly poppies are still holding on the second flat bench heading up. The east side of Two Peaks is still covered in poppies. Saw maybe a dozen in Hidden Valley too.

Scorpion Weed and Fiddleneck are holding strong in the mid sections.

I can't imagine anything holding on more than two weeks with highs of 90 forecasted moving forward.

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- joe

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