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| Hiking | 5.70 Miles |
1,380 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.70 Miles | 6 Hrs 48 Mns | | 0.84 mph |
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| partners | | This was a new hike for me but not for GH. He did this loop hike back in May, 2010, with GPS Joe. [ photoset ] But GH was anxious to do it again after all those years. I talked him into shortening it a little by not including a hike down to the Reynold Creek TH which put it into a more doable range for a day hike now that he(we) are 9 years older.
The trail starts out from the Murphy Ranch TH in thick forest and doesn't open up to grand views until taking the abandoned trail section over the top of a ridge. We went off trail in this section along the spine of the ridge to get some fantastic views. The abandoned trail is very faint in sections and a gps track helps to find the way. But even with the gps track to follow GH wandered off trail down the west side of the ridge before I could get him back on track. This isn't the first time we've had a disagreement on following our gps tracks.  He always says I'm off track because my old Garmin Oregon 450 doesn't include tracking data from the Russian GPS Satellites that are included on his newer GPS. But I think this time the Russians were leading him astray. 
We stopped for lunch at what GH calls the Pueblo Canyon Bluff View Point. The views here were exceptional. Unfortunately there is also cell phone reception there and I got an urgent text from my wife that she was having computer problems at home. I wasted about 20 minutes composing a detailed text explaining how to fix the problem only to find out later that she had gotten a friend to fix it.
The return hike up Reynolds Creek Trail #150 goes through thick forest as it approaches Knowles Hole. There appeared to be a string of springs along the creek in this section and there were many pools of water along the creek bed. I've always been curious about the origin of the name "Knowles Hole". I found an account of the 1890 murder of Edward Baker that said his nearest neighbor was a Robert S Knowles who's homestead was a mile away. Checking the map it turns out that Knowles Hole is a mile north of where Edward was killed. It appears that Knowles didn't hang around to prove up on his homestead and by the 1900 census he was living on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. Perhaps the murder of his neighbor scared him away. Could there be the remains of his homestead cabin hidden somewhere in the thick growth of brush and forest at Knowles Hole?
This was a most enjoyable hike with amazing views of the upper end of Pueblo Canyon, deep forest solitude, and some history to contemplate along the way. |
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