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Unnamed Canyon off FR71 & Oak Creek Ranch, AZ
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| Hiking | 2.00 Miles |
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| no partners | | With a half day I decided to do Boneyback peak and start from Cannondale Kid's route as the rock wall nearby had been calling to me for a while driving past it and I figured we could check it out on the way. Well...
It's an easy hike up the creekbed to it - two fallen trees but no real issues. Some simple class 3 scrambles up boulders as the canyon begins to tighten... and it begins to show some real promise! We soon arrived at a class 4 problem below a waterfall and didn't feel comfortable going up it with the boots we had on, so went back to the van and swapped footwear. S still didn't feel comfortable committing to downclimbing it, but I went up it in Merrel Moab Vents so nothing fancy, sticking to the right of the main chute and then edging across a ledge and up. A really neat very boxed in space. I scrambled out of it and checked out a ledge that looked like it had a sketchy traversal from below. It did, so I went back down and downclimbed, dropping on the other side of the chute and traversing across to where I had climbed up. A little nervewracking but fairly straightforward and it was good having someone below call out footholds for the final drop where I couldn't always see where good holds were.
At this point the peak is out of our timetable, so we wandered down the creek until it got stinky/overgrown/algaeish past a cattle fence so popped out onto FR136 to check out the Oak Creek Ranch. Lots of TP in this area, someone put a grill in a fire ring and warped it, and we had packed out some trash already which is unusual for this area. Found two old stone walls, but not other signs of the ranch, then took FR136 back to FR71 and off to find a spot to park for the night.
Oaker Spring was flowing STRONG into a trough, which the local cows appreciated. |
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Oaker Spring |
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| | | Clean water pouring out into a trough via pipe. Lots of cattle in the area and porous soil, would still need to be filtered I imagine? |
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Upper Oak Creek - Sierra Ancha |
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Light flow |
| | | A mix of pools and light flow, occasionally underground ~Oaker Spring area. Past a fence line the water quality decreased dramatically and the creek smelled terrible. :( | | | |
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