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| no partners | | This was a great hike for me. The road in, as Jim described, has had much improvement. I drove past the TH and parked at the foot of a little hill that I felt would require me to move some rock for the Toyota to make it comfortably. The road of course improved after that and then ended in a car camping area because the creek crossing there is gone; now foot traffic only.
Normally post dislocation of a shoulder takes about 3 months if non op to really get strong. I have returned to some weight lifting and it has been about a month. This short hike to Grant creek falls was good, because I had some challenging scrambling in the creek to get photos. My shoulder did not like the fact I was using trekking poles and having to take some of my body weight but it tolerated it. I needed to get past the fear of falling and hurting myself again; some wet boot scrambling on polished granite was just the trick.
The forest service is restoring some of the old tred and putting in some new brushed tred where the post fire upstream flood run off destroyed a lot of the canyon bottom, per the usual.
The creek had decent flow as did the falls. The first time I was here it was a major boulder hop a long way and there was a lot of water coming down. Now the road/trail that serviced the defunct water line is being restored.
I had not intended to go the falls but ended up there and it was nice, again not a great flow but more than a trickle. The section of trail before the falls very nice in a quiet sun dappled fern forest.
It never got too warm for me. Fortunate as I pulled a total noob mistake and left my dromedary bag at home. I had some gallon jugs of water in the car but made the hike with a can of soda and bottle of tea.
Getting there. This was just awesome to see some water, walk in a non blackened forest, listen to some birds and cicadas' and chill out. |
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