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| | Hiking | 5.32 Miles | 3 Hrs 13 Mns | | 1.65 mph |
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| no partners | | My original plan was to head up Thursday and backpack into the canyon and camp somewhere around the cabin that approximately 3 miles in but the crazy snow storm that rolled through left Thursday cold and rainy/snowy so the plan changed to car camping off of FR 616 and do the loop Friday morning. This isn't a mapped trail but there is a faint single track much of the way. Trail finding or trail "making" is a good way to look at this loop. Some of the loop was following a lightly trafficked trail, part of the hike was on some lightly used OHV trails and part bushwhacking.
Friday morning I hit the trail at 8am and started at the top of the spring on a clear well traveled trail marked by a carin just off FR 616. As fast as I began hiking was just as fast I found the spring with just a trickle from the pipe but good flowing water cascading to the small creek below. They say you can actually crawl into the cave to a vault but I did not have a head lamp. From the spring I headed for the canyon floor and hiked about 1.5 miles and came across an old engine rusting away. A little further up the creek bed was Pivot Rock . I never actually fond the Pivot Rock but the canyon seemed to be laden with what looks like Pivot rock. The hike traversed the lightly flowing creek which was easy enough to rock hop on the multiple crossings. You can stay completely dry if you try. King Solomon, my Doberman, enjoyed the water much of the way. About 3 miles in you come upon an old cabin. This was the area I initially planed on spending the night. There is a meadow which would be an OK settling place for a tent. A bit further up the creek you hit a confluence which seems a bit more notable to pitch a tent.
Continuing up the canyon the creek drys up so your just hiking in a wash. The water comes alive for a brief minute but quickly dried up again. Then its time to head north up a ravine and out of the canyon. I followed a route that someone else posted and quickly found myself bushwhacking up a ravine to get to the rim of the canyon threw Manzanita bushes. As I rechecked my GPS I thought it might be easier to head up from the ravine before my GPSed route but decided to stick with the route I was following. The last .5 -1 mile was simply heading up out of the canyon with no real trail. I managed to find an old ATV trail but it looked like it would just lead me back down into the canyon so I stayed my course up the canyon. AT the top of the ridge I ran into a spur road of FR 616 then back to the trail head. |
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