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Upper Buck Spring Canyon - Mogollon Rim, AZ

	2019-10-04
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Upper Buck Spring Canyon - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Upper Buck Spring Canyon - Mogollon Rim

Payson, AZ

Hiking	5.76 Miles	1,216 AEG

Hiking	5.76 Miles	2 Hrs 49 Mns	2.16 mph
	1,216 ft AEG	9 Mns Break

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Every year for Deb's birthday, I take her on a fall color hike. Usually it's a week later than this, but this is the only weekend that worked for us.

We'd done this one a couple of times before and it worked out great.

This year, we probably hit it a week or 2 early. Some color, but not the explosion of color like in years past. We heard a lot of elk bugling, and saw quite a few. The weather was perfect, but a tad windy.

On the way out, on FR 95, at about 45mph-ish, I saw 4 cow elk close to the side of the road. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a huge 10 x 10 ish Bull in a full run coming at them and cross the road right in front of me. I locked it up and missed him by 5ft. He face planted on the other side of the road, in a cloud of dust. Quite the scene. He got up, a bit embarrassed and continued on.

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Bigtooth Maple

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Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Upper Buck Springs Canyon

Meteorology

Meteorology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Autumn - Color Foliage