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| Hiking | 19.54 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 19.54 Miles | 9 Hrs 47 Mns | | 2.37 mph |
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| no partners | | Working on the Arizona Trail, and this section had been closed for some time after the fire in the 4 Peaks wilderness. With good weather, now seemed like an opportune time to hike passages 20 and 21. So after spending the night near Sunflower, we drove up El Oso road and hiked passage 21. Then the next day we drove to passage 20 and hiked back to our car at El Oso road, making for a pretty simple two-car shuttle, and only once driving up El Oso road!
The first part of this hike is simply following a dirt road for 8 miles. That's not a bad thing, especially when you're trying to make easy miles on the AZT! There wasn't much road traffic, just one ATV that drove by, but I hear it can be pretty crowded with 4-wheelers on popular weekends. Having never been to the 4 Peaks Wilderness before, I thought the views were pretty good, and was impressed by the ability to see north to the Mazatzals and Mt Ord, south to the Superstitions, Mt Lemmon, etc. and east to the Sierra Ancha and Mt Baldy.
Then after the section on the dirt road, the "singletrack" trail starts and takes you all the way to Sunflower. Being such a long hike, it kind of all blends together, and nothing really stands out in my memory. For as long as the hike was, the level of effort was pretty minimal and I didn't feel at all exhausted at the end. |
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