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| no partners | | Trail Maintenance: The gate on Workman Creek Road was open Monday, so this time we drove to the summit of Aztec Peak to work the trail down to where we left off on August 29.
9 a.m. - Started hiking down trail past Ed Abbey's lookout tower.
9:07 - Rounded the summit to beautiful views of Four Peaks. A bit further down, the trail needed more clearing than anticipated.
10:50 - Chopped through a raspberry thicket which was as bad, if not worse, than anything we encountered down below.
11:30 - Having dropped a work glove near the summit, I decided to take a break and go look for it. On the way back up, I did more tweaking of brush over growing the trail.
1:27 p.m. - Unable to find the lost glove up top, I started hiking back down from the tower, after having a nice chat with another HAZer. Great view of Four Peaks again on the west side of the summit. [ youtube video ]
1:33 - On the way down, I ran into Jim hiking back up. He decided to call it a day, and so we agreed that I would thru-hike down to the trailhead below where he would pick me up.
1:53 - I got to the raspberry thicket and hiked down to where I left off earlier. [ youtube video ] Turns out I only had to wade through about 300 feet of raspberry thicket before breaking clear to where I worked to last week. I thought about finishing this off right then and there, but I didn't want to keep Jim waiting below, so I proceeded down the cleared trail.
Back at Petersons Meadow I didn't hear or see any cows, and also didn't see any fresh cowpies or hoof prints. Maybe they're gone? Fingers crossed!
I think we'll make one more trip up there Monday to tweak the trail a bit more and clear that last thicket before declaring victory and checking out The Moody Point Trail! |
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