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| no partners | | With all the rains lately, I thought I would take a chance and see if there was any water still going in the Superstitions. This canyon is always a treat, even if it's dry.
The first part of the fun is driving to the boundary via Cloudview Road. I have hiked this from the Broadway TH and from Cloudview. That adds on 4-5 miles of flat and boring to this hike. The past few times, I have driven up the lovely "road" to the boundary. Looks like there's been a little water passing through this area, as the road was in pretty bad shape.
The 2nd part of the fun starts when you drop down into the Hog Canyon drainage. The grass is so high right now, as high and thick as I have ever seen it. We saw no water or even signs of water at the start. However, as we neared the narrows of section of the canyon, we could hear water running. That was a good sign. Once we reached that section, there was some flow to the creek. But, as soon as you get out of that area, it dried up. There were lots of pools and LOTS of gnats, mosquitos and other flying swarms of nasty little creatures.
I thought, well, that was it, no water at the falls. But, as we got closer to the falls, we started hearing water flowing again. Before we made the "turn" up to get to the falls area, the creek was flowing again. The water from flowing pretty steady from the lower falls down the drainage to the creek. We made our mandatory pictures at the lower area and climbed up to the next falls. That was flowing nicely too and the pool was clear. After exploring a little up there, we all had a nice "soaking" in the pool. That was really nice. Hard to believe there was this much water up here in August.
We started down and did the reverse boulder hopping back to the truck. Everywhere is green these days and the Superstitions are the greenest I have ever seen them this time of year. Of course, everything that is green now will turn brown once the water supply gets cut off. And, with this much growth, it will be that much more fuel for any upcoming fires. Let's hope the fire gods spare this area for a while. Enough of this wilderness has already been roasted beyond repair.
An excellent day in the Supes. |
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