DESTINATION Prospector Trail - MSP 1 Photoset
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| Hiking | 10.88 Miles |
1,532 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.88 Miles | 4 Hrs 44 Mns | | 2.30 mph |
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| no partners | | Did the Dixie Mine Lasso Loop from the Eagles Nest TH in Fountain Hills. The Prospector Trail is one I haven't hiked in about 11 years and I forgot how really nice the views are as you ascend looking at the mountain and canyon below it. On the way back I walked up to the Dixie Mine, which I hadn't been up to in a very long time as well. Looks like they wisely added some more protection over the open shaft rather than just the cyclone fencing.
Coming back down off the Dixie Mine, I saw an unmapped trail south of Thompson Peak Road that's east of the Dixie Mine Trail. I started to follow it and it kept going east. Later on I saw on the USGS mapping that this is listed as a jeep trail that is mapped as joining the Dixie Mine Trail again just north of Eagles Nest. I did see a trail in that spot, so looks like I might have found an unmapped trail, although I get the impression that the powers that be may not approve. Along this trail, I passed what looked like rock walls of an Indian ruin. I looked for sherds, but only found some rusty cans and other equipment, so it might have only been an old mining camp.
There was another trail on the USGS mapping that connected this trail to the Dixie Mine Trail. I just started to bushwhack it as I got close, and then actually found it just before I got to the Dixie Mine Trail.
Saw some hikers and bikers, but not too many. Not the typical early morning traffic I'm used to seeing at all the urban trailheads in the hot weather. |
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