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| Hiking | 18.76 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 18.76 Miles | 8 Hrs 59 Mns | | 2.42 mph |
| 4,939 ft AEG | 1 Hour 14 Mns Break | 15 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | Okay, last triplog upload for tonight, then it's time to get to bed before work this week. This one was a recent day hike on the Arizona Trail, passage 18, which runs from Picketpost Mountain trailhead in the south up to Rogers Trough trailhead in the north.
The drive: Picketpost is easy access; Rogers Trough, not so much... For reference, we were driving a 4WD Chevy Suburban and a 2WD Ford Explorer (both 20+ years old). I was driving the Explorer and it made it, but barely so. The road was actually in better condition than I remembered it being about four years ago, and the part up to where Woodbury splits off seemed recently graded. But once you get into the rough stuff for the last few miles, it's rough! Not so much a clearance problem (6.5 inches in the Explorer was enough), it's more of a traction problem. There was definitely one time when my car was driving forward, but turned about 15 degrees to the side, with the back wheels spinning and trying to find traction. Needless to say, we were glad to make it to the top! I've never driven a truck off road, but I'd be inclined to say having the weight of backpacks, gear, etc. helped me make it in the SUV better than a 2WD truck would make it up.
The hike: We went in the uphill direction--kind of a bummer, but since we're primarily doing the AZT in the northbound direction, we wanted to continue that trend. Without exaggeration, I would rate this among the best hikes I've ever done in Arizona! Everything about it was just perfect. Beautiful scenery, beautiful vegetation, a landscape not scarred by wildfires (becoming more rare in Arizona, unfortunately), the creek flowing through the canyon, blue sunny skies, wildflowers. This hike has it all!
It was also a very long hike, so we didn't finish till about an hour before sunset, which gave us enough time to get down the road in daylight, something we had purposely saved time for. |
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Reavis Trail Canyon |
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Whitford Canyon |
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