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| Canyoneering | 23.98 Miles |
4,320 AEG |
| | Canyoneering | 23.98 Miles | 11 Hrs 26 Mns | | 2.10 mph |
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| no partners | | I chose Peter’s Canyon Loop hoping to stay and hike in town a while longer before it gets too hot. With temps creeping into the high 90s and little chance of water, this was not an easy day hike. Hiking during the dry season is a blessing and a curse. There’s little/no salvageable water to capitalize on, so I had to carry. Also the canyon is much more scenic with water flowing. The upside is that it’s a bit easier to pass through when dry.
I started 6:30 am at Tortilla Flat and did a counter clockwise loop through the canyon, along Peter’s 105, FR213 and back on the 88 about 11.5 hours later. I was conserving but misjudged and ran out of water at Tortilla, so caught a lift the last few miles back to Tortilla Flat. I could have made it but decided not to press my luck.
Part of the reason I picked this hike is that I heard rumors that the infamous red-paint-tagger had been through Peter’s Canyon. Good news, there were no red painted cairns within the actual canyon. While back on the 105 I was motivated to remove another 100+ bright red eyesores from that section. This was the segment from Peter’s Canyon back to where I turned off for Music Mountain recently. I suspect that the trail from Peter’s Canyon up to the Mesa is probably still filled with ugly red rocks. To be honest it was pretty exhausting correcting the vandalism on an already long day hike and really slowed me down. Other than that it was a great look at Peter’s in the month of May and a trip that I’ll probably always remember. Check the photoset for more details. |
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