Apache Leap Photoset • PrestonSands • 2007-12-19 • HikeArizona.COM

Apache Leap, AZ

	2007-12-19
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Apache Leap

Globe, AZ

Apache Leap

Globe, AZ

Hiking	3.30 Miles	700 AEG

Hiking	3.30 Miles	3 Hrs 25 Mns	0.97 mph
	700 ft AEG

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I arrived at the east side of Apache Leap, where I was greeted by miners in pickup trucks driving back and forth down the Magma Mine Road. There was a sizable drilling operation going on a little ways down the 315 road. So I headed away from it and hiked up an unnamed canyon near the Magma Mine to the top of a hill on the edge of Apache Leap. I started to go further south along the top, until a mountain lion blocked my path about 400 feet away. It hid in a bush and watched me. So I retreated a few hundred yards to the north to check out an overlook. The creature then reappeared again, just a few hundred feet away. It's following me. Great

So I took some bad telephoto shots of it, and some shots over the edge of Apache Leap, before heading back down the canyon, all the while watching my back. Aways down I stopped to examine the mountain lion shots I took. Aw, man, it was a coatimundi :lol:

I wanted it to be a mountain lion. Great hike, though!

Fauna

Fauna [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Coatimundi

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Picketpost Mountain Weavers Needle

Meteorology

Meteorology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Moon

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