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| partners | | | We modified this hike since both of us had done parts and Screeslider only needed to complete Wilderness of Rocks to Hutch's Pool. We started on Sunday up at the ski lift and came down the Aspen Trail. Great views!! Met up with the Arizona Trail at the junction for Wilderness of Rocks. We were pleasantly surprised at how much water there was. Lemmon Creek was flowing, and we found good water north of the creek and again south of the creek. There's a few downed trees that are high enough that they require climbing over or going around. Along West Fork only 1 required crawling under - the rest are flat on the ground and a non-issue. Sunday we ran into a small group of day hikers doing the Lemmon Loop, and a NOBO backpacker heading up from Romero Pass as we were coming down. We had hoped to get to Hutch's Pool to camp, but our knees were DONE after coming down to Romero Pass, so we camped at the nice area by the Cathedral Rock junction. Monday morning we found out that had we gone a mile farther, we would have found a nice pool of water with a waterfall and good camping nearby. In 2ish more miles we found running water in the creek and another nice camp spot. We went on to Hutch's Pool, filtered water and had a snack. Then headed to Sabino Canyon and took that out to the tram stop. Tram is currently not running due to permit issues. We walked the road down to the parking lot / vehicle. |
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Wildflowers Observation Moderate
Some flowers and beautiful grasses as we got lower. Up on Lemmon not anything to speak of, but below Romero Pass, all along West Fork and Sabino Canyon was very pretty. |
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