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Dripping Springs from Peralta, AZ

	2021-01-18
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Dripping Springs from Peralta

Phoenix, AZ

Dripping Springs from Peralta

Phoenix, AZ

Hiking	17.76 Miles	2,620 AEG

Hiking	17.76 Miles	9 Hrs 8 Mns		2.08 mph
	2,620 ft AEG	36 Mns Break	15 LBS Pack

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Dutchman Trail #104

Coffee Flat Trail #108

Whitlow Canyon Loop

Partners

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Met my bud Tim on the trail for another day trek in the Superstitions. The main plans were to see the aftermath of fires (and regrowth) in mostly familiar areas. Originally we were headed down to Milk Ranch in Whitlow Canyon. The area had been torched so bad that it will be saved it for another day. Also you can practically drive right up to it with the right vehicle. After looking for (again) the source of Deerhorn Spring (didn’t find it), we turned up Coffee Flat Canyon. Saw not less than 3 different family groups of Javelina, which is a lot in my experience.

Coffee Flat canyon is interesting and a worthy future side trip. Randolph Canyon was bone dry as expected and this makes it a very different trip from the usual water excursion. Looked into Carlson’s cave at Dripping Spring. Pretty much the same, but always worth climbing up to.

The windmills at Reeds appear about the same as well. The best part of the trip was back up to Abe Reid’s Camp. (Reeds Camp). Abe Reid was a Dutch hunter and miner who started the mine in the mid 1930s. USPS TOPO got the name wrong, and his name was definitely Reid. He spent decades looking for silver in Whitlow, but never found it. He died in 1958. Tom Kollenborn wrote a nice chronicle about him if you like history. The camp looks about the same as when I first went there and even about the same as Kollenborn’s photo from the 1980s. There is rusty stuff everywhere. We were going to take his 60 year old road but decided to bushwhack instead. It’s more interesting and never know what will be found off of the beaten path.

The off trail and mine explore really slowed the pace, but we were enjoying the experience. Headed back through the devastated Barkley Basin to be greeted by an amazing sunset at the Peralta lot. It was a good day.

Flora

Flora [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Fremont Cottonwood

Geology

Geology [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] dike (igneous) Silver

Culture

Culture [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Dam - Rock Old Rusty Stuff Spring Box Windmill

Named place

Named place [ checklist ]

[ checklist ] Barkley Basin Buzzards Roost Cathedral Rock - Superstitions Coffee Flat Canyon Coffee Flat Mountain Deerhorn Spring Fraser Canyon Iron Mountain Quarter Circle U Ranch Randolph Canyon Reeds Water Whitlow Canyon

Wildflowers Observation Isolated

	Bark at Dutchman Crossing	Dry	Dry

	Coffee Flat Canyon	Dry	Dry

	Deerhorn Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	There is no water at pin location on map. There are pools and concrete structures farther down. There is a modern spring box flowing a gallon a minute 300 yards south of map location.

	Fraser Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	You cannot get water from Dripping Spring, but Fraser Canyon confluence had a trickle.

	Randolph Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	Some pools at confluence Coffee Flat Canyon. Dry at Randolph.

	Reeds Water	Dry	Dry
	Water in both wells by windmills. Both boxes including the seep are dry as a bone (as usual).

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