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| Hiking | 9.10 Miles |
2,415 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.10 Miles | 4 Hrs 18 Mns | | 2.50 mph |
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| no partners | | I needed to be NW of town today, so I decided to hike up to Yarnell Hill, which is out near the Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial. In fact, the bike begins at the Hotshots Memorial TH, follows the trail along all the memorials, and then instead of taking the Journey Trail down to the fatality site, you continue NW on what is left of an old jeep trail until you get to Yarnell Hill.
The elevation of Yarnell Hill is somewhere around 6,080'-6,100'. What caught my eye is that it has a little over 1,100' of prominence, so it has some peakbagging interest for me.
It was a fairly easy hike past the Hotshots Trail, although there was some ups and downs, which added a bit to the elevation gain. The views were nice along the way and at the summit, but I would not consider them to be extraordinary.
I followed the road until a few hundred feet from the summit, and had to go off-trail from there. It was an easy off-trail though -- there was some shrub live oak to deal with, but it was fairly easy to find gaps and avoid almost all of it. There was a tad bit of rock hopping just below the summit, but I would not even call it class 2 hiking/climbing. It was a nice day -- cloudy with moderate temperatures and not much wind -- so I hung out at the summit for a bit before heading back. At the summit there were some nice 360 degree views of the surrounding area.
This was a decent hike but it won't make my top ten list. Most non-peakbaggers would not want to make the trip out there just to hike to Yarnell Hill, but if you are hiking the Hotshots Memorial anyway and want a little extra distance and elevation gain, this might be a good option. |
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