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| Hiking | 3.94 Miles |
510 AEG |
| | Hiking | 3.94 Miles | 2 Hrs 6 Mns | | 1.89 mph |
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| partners | | The Second hike of the day was along the Burro Mesa Pour-Off Trail. This is a trail that starts along the Ross Maxwell Road and travels along Javelina Creek to the top of the Burro Mesa Pour-Off. I was excited about doing this hike after hiking the lower portion yesterday. We were up on Burro Mesa closer to the Chisos Mountains so the drizzle was a little more consistent and harder than the previous hike to the Chimneys. This is a 4 mile round trip hike.
This hike is interesting the whole way. The trail drops into a side creek of Javelina Creek and passes through some rock narrows that peak your interest. Eventually you drop into Javelina creek for some sandy creek walking. Plenty to keep your interest peaked as you trudge through the coarse grained sand and gravel. Gradually the walls close in on you and the canyon gets narrow. The dark walls look like some other world and I found myself wondering what it must look like as the water rushes through these narrows heading for an eventual drop off. Normally you would not want to be in this canyon during a rain storm but this was a light drizzle and I wasn’t concerned about flash flooding. In the summer you would want to really know what the weather was doing up stream, toward the end of the trail there is no escape from a flashflood. We got to within 50 feet of the actual drop off and could go no further, the creek makes a sloping 50 foot drop and with the wet slick rocks I doubted whether I could get back out. My original thought was to get a closer view and see if I could get down but Ginny said this looks like one of those stories that starts with “Here hold my beer”. I could see foot prints in the sand below but I didn’t chance it. A rope or sticky boots would be nice or maybe if the rocks weren’t wet. From where we stood we could not actually see the drop off it was around a bend in the rocks. I will have to be satisfied with the photos I saw on line, Google Earth views and the view from below that I saw yesterday.
This is one of those trails that is a must see if you are in the park. Spring is a good time because I could see how in the summer this could be a scorcher with all the dark rock. If you want to see a flash flood come over this drop off summer is probably the best time but I would do it from the lower trail.
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