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| Hiking | 7.20 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 7.20 Miles | 2 Hrs 25 Mns | | 2.98 mph |
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| no partners | | | Warm weather is back!. I tried a little experiment. The Catalina State park has several easy loop trails as well as the trail heads to the fifty mile trail, The Romero trail and the Sutherland trail. Today I started at the Romero Pool trail head and hiked to the Montrose Pools. Pools were pretty dry so I headed back down the trail to the canyon loop split and headed north east. About a mile in I came to the edge of the Catalina State park boundary and slipped past a small marker denoting entering the Coranado forest wilderness and an unmaintained trail. Truer words were never written, The "trail" meanders through the rolling land up against and around the base of the Sutherland ridge. Using a little dead reckoning and the desire not to be flayed alive by the thick vegetation I did a large circle reentering the state park via the Sutherland wash and picked up the loop trail and followed it back to the trail head. Lots and lots of broken quartz, made me wonder why I didn't see a golden flake or two? The trail does not have a lot of elevation but it is almost solid sand and provides a great work out. |
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