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| Hiking | 7.40 Miles |
1,292 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.40 Miles | 1 Hour 52 Mns | | 3.96 mph |
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| no partners | | Seems like there's always something of interest on my Maricopa Trail hikes lately. Today was no different. I intended to hike part of the segment from Bronco TH south toward FH 1058. Got to the TH about 8:45. It was breezy, cool (my car said 38 degrees) and cloudy. Seeing the MT trail marker near the rest room, I started hiking south...or so I thought. The first .3 to .5 mile was uphill, a short but decent uphill stretch. I continued along the ridgeline with great views of Humboldt Mountain and also to the south. I kept waiting to cross the gravel road, but it never happened. At the 2.4 mile mark I started downhill and looked at my route. Oops. That's when I realized I was on the MT going between Bronco and Spur Cross. Ah, this is the section I wanted to save for hiking with LosDos. At least I was going in the right direction! Seeing that it was clouding up and getting cooler, I decided to head back.
It wasn't long before I noticed tiny objects drifting in the air around me. Dust? Nope. Ah, flurries...snow flurries. And the flurries turned to full-on snow. Very eerie, any sounds were somewhat muffled, and the surrounding hills were obscured in a snowy fog. The wind along the ridgeline was blowing right-to-left, and the snow started accumulating along my left leg. I was in the snow for perhaps 15-20 minutes...nothing accumulating on the ground, just on me and my hat. I don't frequent snowy areas, so haven't done any snow hiking. I got a day of rain on the Camino, but no snow. So a very interesting experience.
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I'll have to take a mulligan on the Bronco to FH 1058 section. Save that for another day. The whole idea today was to cover some of this section in the Bronco area before it gets too hot. Guess I solved that problem. |
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