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| Hiking | 3.60 Miles |
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| no partners | | I was excited to explore this as a new quick, local East Valley hike. In short, that's just what it is. My wife and I hit the trail about 6pm with plenty of water and a relatively cool August day. Easy-pace hiking, plus about 15min of exploring/photography/water drinking time, the whole thing took almost exactly 2 hours. Lots of "baby head" rocks along most of the trail make it one to keep your eyes on, and not one I'd recommend for trail running. I agree trek poles are a good idea here, and definitely a light if you're going to be on it in the dark. Mostly a very gradual incline, steepening enough at the end to maybe require hands for a moment or two, but not enough to make us break out gloves. Trail appears lightly used, but keep heading toward the cave on what appears to be trail, and you're unlikely to get lost.
View from the cave mouth is spectacular, but the cave smells of bat and maybe also human waste too much to make an inviting campsite. Unfortunate graffiti on walls. Interesting short mine extends east within the cave just deep enough to need a bit of light to explore. We saw no bees - maybe because of the late hour. Acoustics up on the cliff are interesting too. We could hear the conversation-level voices of hikers nearly a mile away headed toward the cave, and fairly low-volume music coming from a home nearly 2 miles out. |
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