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| | Backpack | 9.80 Miles | 23 Hrs 49 Mns | | 0.49 mph |
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| no partners | | | 1st overnight backpacking trip with my girlfriend...thought this one would be a nice intro! Little did we know that the official trail gpx for this hike only brings you to the "bench" overlooking Sedona. We were thinking more of the summit, which was almost 1.5x the distance from the bench. If you're thinking of camping by the bench, it is possible, but everyone hiking the trail will have a full view of your campsite. After getting to the summit, there was a campsite right near the end with an overlook of Sedona. We decided we wanted more privacy so we hiked along the ridge a half mile. We didn't find anything good (there were tons of shrubs, bushes, cacti, and rocks) so we hiked back toward the trail. We found a decent campsite a little of the trail (see pics). If you are thinking of camping there I'd try to find the same site -- just go to the right of the trail maybe 100ft and you should see a nice flat clear spot overlooking Sedona (or look at my GPX file and see where there is a lot of movement toward the end/see my pics). Otherwise weather was beautiful and the view was superb. Brought about 4.5/5L of water each and was came back with 0.5 to spare. There may have been a couple of spots to filter water near the first bench but it wasn't clean and probably would have needed a "pre-filter" before running it through the actual water filter. As far as parking goes, we had an America the Beautiful Annual Pass so we just left it on the dash in the parking lot. |
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