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| Vault Mine - Agua Caliente - Super Trail Loop, AZ | |
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Vault Mine - Agua Caliente - Super Trail Loop, AZ
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| Hiking | 7.84 Miles |
2,085 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.84 Miles | 5 Hrs 51 Mns | | 1.95 mph |
| 2,085 ft AEG | 1 Hour 50 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | The Vault Mine Trail is nice and steep, gets you up to a good altitude quickly. I started hiking a little before 6 a.m. The ground was damp, but the creeks are not running at the moment. The air was pretty muggy during the early morning, but after the cloud cover burned off it was a lot drier. I really enjoyed this loop. I hadn't set foot on the Super Trail since the mid 1990's, as far as I can recall. Last hiked Vault Mine in '99. And I had not hiked very much of the Agua Caliente trail before.
I saw a dozen turkeys (the true avian kind, not the humanoid variety) near the cabins as I drove up Madera Canyon Road, and several deer. During the hike I saw birds, bunnies and lots of lizards. I saw one hiker on the Vault Mine Trail, zero on the Agua Caliente, and half a dozen or so on the Super Trail.
Nice quiet day in a very small but vibrant wilderness area.
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Wildflowers Observation Isolated
A few penstemon, columbines, daisies. Not many. |
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Sprung Spring |
Dripping |
Dripping |
| | | Must be dripping, since there is water in the trough, but I didn't see any drips. The trough could use a good cleaning. | | _____________________
There is a point of no return unremarked at the time in most lives. Graham Greene The Comedians
A clean house is a sign of a misspent life. |
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