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Ramsey Pat Scott Trail, AZ
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| Hiking | 9.37 Miles |
2,780 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.37 Miles | 6 Hrs 24 Mns | | 1.53 mph |
| 2,780 ft AEG | 16 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | We spent two days in Sierra Vista for hiking. The first day we started in Ramsey Canyon and hiked the Hamburg and Pat Scott Trail. Started out at 9:00 when Ramsey Canyon opened and paid the fee to enter. Temperature was in the upper 30’s when we started. This time of year everything is kind of dormant so the canyon wasn’t as green as it usually is. Only a few people in the canyon when we started.
Beautiful hike up the Hamburg trail along an easy to follow trail. During the first mile you climb 500 feet to an overlook with good views up Ramsey Canyon. It is just a couple hundred yards before the overlook that you leave the private property of Ramsey Canyon and enter National Forest. From the overlook you drop back down into Ramsey Canyon. Moderate flow in the creek almost the whole way to the junction with the Pat Scott Trail. In places it flowed under the surface. Shortly after dropping into the canyon the Brown Canyon trail enters from the North. This is the northern entrance to the Canyon to avoid the fee of Ramsey Canyon, of coarse you have to hike nearly 5 miles from Brown Canyon Ranch. At approximately 2.5 miles in you come to the junction with the Pat Scott trail. We took a break here. The Comfort Spring Trail comes in from the east just before this junction. This is the trail to take if you are hiking the Hamburg or Pat Scott Trails to the ridge (avoid the Ramsey park fees). Mileage to this point is a wash, both about 2.5 miles but you avoid the 500 foot climb out of Lower Ramsey.
After our break we headed up the Pat Scott Trail. Pat Scott creek had a light flow pretty much the whole length. Remnants of past mining along with some of the equipment (boiler, sheds and misc hardware) along the trail. We encountered ice flows alongside the creek in a couple of places and at one spot we had to detour around one that crossed the trail, too slick to cross in just hiking boots. Frozen snow was on the upper portion of the trail on the north facing slopes that didn’t get as much sun. About a half mile from the crest we turned around due to running out of time and not prepared to hike in frozen snow. My boots were fine but Ginny’s were not made for snow. We turned around at about the same spot My first wife Debbie petered out and could go no further, I told her I would be back in a few and did the last .4 miles at a fast pace to the ridge. I didn’t do that this time. Great views of Ramsey peak from the upper portion of this trail.
Great hike with great scenery. Only saw two people on the trail and that was early on (not counting Ramsey Park). My GPS route is kind of messed up at the start so the mileage data is incorrect, probably while I was in the building paying the fee. |
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