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Kendrick - Bull Basin - Pumpkin Loop, AZ
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| Hiking | 17.18 Miles |
4,864 AEG |
| | Hiking | 17.18 Miles | 7 Hrs 39 Mns | | 2.56 mph |
| 4,864 ft AEG | 57 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | Kendrick Peak Trail #22
Still one of the easiest ascending treads in AZ. Fire damage is notable if you concentrate on it. On route to the trailhead and on this trail most of the burned trees still had green crowns. Expected worse, plenty of untorched forest remains.
Bull Basin Trail #40
Perhaps a hundred-plus trees to crawl over. It's a tidy mess. Travel is just slow and tedious not horrible as other burn areas I've been through in other areas. Personally, I would descend it again. Forget ascending until serious trail maintenance.
Connector Trail #80
Albeit semi-moonscape in areas, this trail gets a bump up from 2 to 3 for me. Views are easier to appreciate now that the prickly shrub is all gone. Route finding still demands your attention in some areas. Enough pine-covered islands/stretches to enjoy a lunch break.
Pumpkin Trail #39
Aside from a little more route finding in the mid-lower section, the same tree cover and tread as years past.
Synopsis
Busier than ever with lots of nearby areas closed due to dry conditions. Piestewa Peak is still busier in 100+ temps... Humphreys if open would have five times the visitors so enough with the I don't have the most popular part of the wilderness all to myself in prime season sniffle syndrome. |
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Wildflowers Observation Substantial
Light for most of the loop. Lower mountain ridges of the Pumkin Trail are a blanket of lupine. |
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