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| Hiking | 12.51 Miles |
2,384 AEG |
| | Hiking | 12.51 Miles | 6 Hrs 5 Mns | | 2.07 mph |
| 2,384 ft AEG | 3 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Brian had a good description of the trail in his triplog. After 245 to the corral, it's very easy to follow. From the corral for a half mile to the wash its a bushwhack, but you just follow the fence and the path of least resistance. Then you follow the wash and head to your right towards the end of it, to the north slopes. We headed to the left because I was following the track I downloaded and missed the turn off to the right. Once we got to some serious thick brush, I decided to check the track and saw we were way off.
After the route up the hill to the China Wall is cairned for the most part. The trail is mostly not there, but then visible at times. Most of the time we kept getting off track and off the trail. For most of the hike past the corral I had to keep checking the route to make sure we hadn't veered off, which it seemed like we did constantly.
Brian and I were both on somewhat tight schedules with errands planned later in the day. As we reached the China Wall, we kept ascending on the hill. I wanted to get to the next saddle/summit, and then turn around, but it seemed like it was a series of false summits. Finally we got to the high point, and it was a very nice payoff. The official track continued about another half mile or so, but that all went downhill. We had enough of a bushwhack back, so we decided against that. When I checked the track against a satellite background, there was a visible trail as some sections, but it was on the other side of the wall from where we were. If we had tried to follow, we likely would have been bushwhacking for quite a bit.
Brian ran ahead of me on the way back because he was on a tighter schedule, then promptly veered too far to the right downhill into the ravine and on the wrong side of a hill. After hiking over a mile and a half on the way back, I could see him not too far away trying to find his way. I yelled to him and pointed the way for him to go. He seemed to have already have it figured out by then. The last glimpse of him I got was just before I entered the wash before the corral, which he had passed on his way out.
The weather was very cool and windy the entire time. On the way back home I noticed the difference in temperature as the elevations got lower. Saw no other hikers, bikers, horseriders, etc, for the entire hike. I was rather surprised by that given this time of year. This seems like a pretty popular area normally. Conditions also seemed pretty dry. the big tank off of 245 on the way in was a big grass bed. |
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