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| Hiking | 5.66 Miles |
945 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.66 Miles | 2 Hrs 32 Mns | | 2.26 mph |
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| no partners | | First family hike we've done in a while, minus my daughter who's off in college now. Last week Andy and I were in this area getting a start on Passage 16. There are now 2 trailheads along here that are not even 3 miles apart. Andy and I hiked from the northern one just past Mineral Creek west of the Kelvin-Florence Highway, so this week I decided to hike up that spot from the southern trailhead that is right on the highway (actually dirt road). This made for a perfect shorter family Sunday morning hike.
Got started just after 8am. Parking lot had more people that I expected at that time. Poppies were out like crazy, as they seem to be everywhere at the lower elevations right now. Made for really nice and bright scenery.
We crossed the Gila on the old Kelvin Bridge and then crossed Mineral Creek to the northern trailhead from the week before. Mineral Creek was noticeably lower than the week before. I had to make a stream crossing in the Xterra last week and I was a little concerned that it might cause a problem for us today but there was no water in that area.
On our way back we saw some hikers. One was a group of 3, another group of 10 and one guy by himself. The smaller group said they were hiking to Picketpost and camping 2 nights. The larger group were all in their 20s and were going up to Roosevelt, where I was the day before, over the next 5 days. The one girl said she was from out of state. Most of them had short sleeves or no sleeves and no long pants. They seemed a little inexperienced for the AZ elements they were about to experience.
Finished up fairly quickly in time to get some lunch at Superior. We stopped at the Silver King Smokehouse and Saloon and had a really nice BBQ lunch. There was also the annual Apache Mine Festival going on there. Main St. was closed down and had several food trucks and other vendors, as well as a ferris wheel and funhouse/hall of mirrors. We headed straight out after lunch. Rt. 60 eastbound was backed up nearly 10 miles from the RenFest traffic. Glad we got an early start to avoid that in the morning. |
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