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Green Mountain Trail Guthrie Peak, AZ
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| Hiking | 9.15 Miles |
2,701 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.15 Miles | 6 Hrs 34 Mns | | 1.55 mph |
| 2,701 ft AEG | 39 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | Heading up a little further on Mount Lemmon as the weather gets warmer. Hiked the Green Mountain Trail from the General Hitchcock camp ground. Took a side trip to Maverick Spring and Guthrie Peak. The weather was perfect in the mid 70's with a breeze.
The Green Mountain Trail is in good condition up to the ridge where the Guthrie Mountain Trail splits off. A little evidence of last years fire but mostly burnt under brush leaving the trees alone. A couple areas along the trail you can see where the fire fighters cleared ridgelines of brush to contain the fire. The trail after the intersection with the Guthrie Trail is in good condition with some burn areas along the east side of Green Mountain that destroyed all the trees. We went in just a bit past Maverick Spring. There is a sign up on the ridge that says no trail so be advised. There was sign that the trail has been used by both hikers and Mountain bikers recently though. The views to the east have been enhanced by the removal of a lot of the underbrush.
Maverick Spring was particularly interesting because the brush has been burnt away and the spring is very visible. When I was here in 2013 the brush was so thick you could hardly see the spring. The trail in is a little vague so if you aren't sure where the spring is a GPS route would be advisable. Saw a couple of mulies along the trail and they did not seem to be too alarmed by us, they stopped and allowed us to get pictures. Maverick Spring had a seep of water but the Trough was dry. The spring is up the hill about 20 yards from the trough.
The highlight of the hike was Guthrie Peak. I had not been up here since 2013 and at that time I was not that impressed. Don't know why, it is a very steep ascent to the peak and I didn't think the views were that great. This time was different, there is still a very steep ascent(probably the steepest Ginny has been on), But the views were Spectacular. Mount Graham and Galiuros to the east Mica Mountain, Tanque Verde Peak and Santa Rita's to the south, As far as you can see to the west and Mount Lemmon of coarse to the north. There is one section of the ascent where it requires a steep rock scramble. for young people it is a steep walk up a rock surface, for us older folks it was and hands and foot climb. There doesn't appear to be any recent fire damage along this trail but there is evidence an older burn.
Kudos to Ginny on this hike, not the most miles we have done but definitely the most AEG. When we got to the steep rock section of the ascent up to Mount Guthrie I asked if she was up for this and she just said between gasping breaths, "continue". So on all fours we went up. |
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