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| Hiking | 1.95 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 1.95 Miles | 2 Hrs 11 Mns | | 1.33 mph |
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| no partners | | Parked at the campground's day-use parking and moseyed downstream towards the Box ... a hike I've enjoyed many times over the past 20-some years.
Not only have I never seen it so dry, I never imagined it ever getting this dry! 
Small flow through the campground ends soon after, and only two decent looking pools hanging on below there to the boy scout camp.
Another unhappy surprise - since when is the entire creekbed fenced off at the boy scout camp, disallowing the trail through that has been used for decades?! Actually I thought there was a law that waterways were public and had to allow passage, or something like that? I'm going to inquire with the Ranger district.
So ... didn't get down to Box.
Enjoyed a nice long sit above a big pool on the way back. I watched two trout, a crayfish, and some sort of sucker fish go about their business. It was nice.
It got real birdy back near the campground, so I decided to come back after grabbing my camera from the car - got some pretty good pics here.
I startled an elk (it was mutual) from about 30 yards away - sadly, I am so unaccustomed to seeing elk these days, that my surprised brain attached the word "horse" first to the large brown animal in front of me! 
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