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| Sunrise Peak / Lost Dog loop, AZ | |
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Sunrise Peak / Lost Dog loop, AZ
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| Hiking | 14.79 Miles |
2,675 AEG |
| | Hiking | 14.79 Miles | 6 Hrs 52 Mns | | 2.30 mph |
| 2,675 ft AEG | 26 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This was sort of a strange loop but I wanted to do some geocaching in the area. There aren't geocaches in the preserve, but there are some that take you into the preserve where you answer questions along the way to gain the coordinates of the geocache.
I started at the overflow parking for the Sunrise Peak trailhead. Climbed up to the summit of Sunrise Peak, then headed down to the Lost Dog trailhead. I wasn't paying close enough attention and ended up heading down the trail to the east of Lost Dog, so that added a bit, as I needed to answer some questions in the two nature loops at the trailhead. From there, I went off to find one of the caches off of Columbine Dr, then followed the path along 124th to E Via Linda, where I headed east to just past 136th. From there I went into the wash (I do not recommend going into the wash from Via Linda)
There were many caches along the wash that I searched for. After the last cache, there is a scramble up the wash for a ways. That was fun and I enjoyed working my way up it. Finally, you leave the wash onto a spur trail that takes you up to the Sunrise Peak trail. The best flowers of the day were along this trail.
Once back on the Sunrise Peak trail, I just hoofed it back to the trailhead. I was getting tired and I was just backtracking trail I had been on earlier. I skipped going up to the summit on the way back as there is a side trail making it easy to skip. |
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