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| Hiking | 2.64 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 2.64 Miles | 1 Hour 27 Mns | | 1.86 mph |
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| no partners | | It had been along time since I hiked this underrated trail in the Blue. I have wondered since the Brigham Fire, how the trail had held up, but I never committed to checking it out, as I figured it was probably pretty fire damaged, due to the trailhead area being scorched. However, when I hiked the Red Mountain Trail earlier in the summer, I noticed that a good forest still existed in the Strayhorse drainage and the severity of the fire decreased significantly just a few hundred feet from the trailhead area, so I put it on the todo list for this season.
I finally got around to checking out the trail last weekend, on what will probably be my last trip to the range until perhaps the fall, or next year most likely. As mentioned, the trailhead is not promising. Nearly every tree in the immediate vicinity of the TH is scorched to include most of the trees on the western slopes of Rose Peak. The informational kiosk also burned along with the tree that had the trail sign on it, making the start of this hike pretty inconspicuous. In fact, you wont find much of a tread for the first 100 plus feet or so out of the trailhead. However, after that good tread appears and minimal fire damage accompanies you along the first mile to the cabin ruins, which survived. I am assuming they wrapped it and maybe conducted some back burns in the area, as the fire appeared to burn very healthy around the cabin and along the short stretch of trail to the cabin. Almost seemed too precision to be a natural burn down there, but I don't know enough about that stuff to make a claim either way. I just know I was happy to see the area survived. We had hiked Blanco seven miles the day before, so we did not continue past the cabin, however, I can confirm the trail is generally in good shape to the cabin, with only one tree across the trail and some standard post fire tall grasses, mullein weed, and etc, but good tread apart from the very beginning. |
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