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| Hiking | 20.61 Miles |
5,142 AEG |
| | Hiking | 20.61 Miles | 11 Hrs | | 1.87 mph |
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| partners | | I knocked out a big day in the Supes with Jordyn today. We opted for a couple of walk up summits in the backcountry, Herman and Music Mountains.
We cruised to the summit of Herman and were signing the register a mere three hours after we had left the trailhead. We took the first obvious drainage that looks like it goes from the Red Tanks Trail after crossing LaBarge Creek. A dryfall with a black streak is visible from the trail and we took the chance that the fall could be bypassed or climbed. Some light scrambling and an exposed third class move was required to climb the fall and we were soon making our way up the grassy slopes of Herman. As we hiked up Herman we noticed that there was a pretty direct route from Trap Canyon up to the summit of Music. So after signing the register, we made the steep and somewhat spicy descent into Trap Canyon. From there, we shot a direct azimuth up the steep grassy slopes to the summit of Music.
The line we took to Music was steep and a little strenuous, but there wasn´t much brush and it seemed to go rather quickly. We replaced the summit register and tried to interpret the names in the old register, which appears to have been taking on water for awhile now. All the names appeared to be HAZ users, however, the register had not been signed since 2012. The descent from Music got tedious to say the least. I had remembered seeing some lines above LaBarge Spring that appeared to get through the Bluffs over the years, but these could not be located that easily from above. We ended up taking a very steep descent into and unnamed drainage that drained into Music Canyon. We ended up in a good old Supes bushwhack for a period there and found ourselves walking across overgrown brush as if we were floating at times. After the brush portion it was time to earn our canyoneering badges. We had several interesting down climbs for about a .3 mile stretch, highlighted by a tremendous rock slide area that had created a literal Maze of house sized boulders to navigate. The going was extremely slow through this short section of unnamed canyon. I hope I never get as excited and relieved as I was today about reaching fire damaged Supes terrain. From the fire damage it was just a quick knee rattling descent to the trail.
We returned via Bluff Springs Trail #235. Some how we only saw one hiker all day and it was a great day to be out in the Supes, especially after the clouds moved in. Its been awhile since I stretched my legs like this in the Supes and it felt good. Thanks for getting me motivated for this one Jordyn and thank you for the patience on the Music descent. |
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