CCRP 6 Trail Loop Photoset • LosDosSloFolks • 2023-03-13 • HikeArizona.COM

CCRP 6 Trail Loop, AZ

	2023-03-13
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CCRP 6 Trail Loop, AZ

Hiking	7.00 Miles	672 AEG

Hiking	7.00 Miles
	672 ft AEG		10 LBS Pack

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Military Trail - P.A. Seitts Preserves

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Route Recorded on Route Scout | Pop | Map | Popup | MapDEX

After breakfast we decided to cross the creek on foot while we still could before the rain to get in one of our close to home loops. The creek was running pretty strong but with waterproof shoes we had no problem finding a way across.

Wildflowers were really starting to pop but no Brittlebush yet even though the desert is loaded with it. It will be a sea of yellow up here in a week or two.

Met a fellow named Craig on the Go John Trail who was with the Desert Foothills Land Trust and we hiked with him for a couple of miles and had some good conversation. We also got in some great petting with two good horses and two good dogs.

A Mystery Solved

The highlight of the hike was solving the mystery of a spring box that @tibber found during a hike with Cathy, @trekkin_gecko , and @LindaAnn . The box had a 8" diameter pipe in the bottom that made no sense at all.

We did some sleuthing and found the pipe exiting the ground in some nearby trees and we followed it to an old underground pump house just off the flood plain of the creek. The 12 by 12 foot pump house had a well and a kerosene engine to pump water up to the box for horses and cattle. The old corral on the Military Trail is nearby so this made sense. You don't need that much pump and pipe to fill a 8 foot shallow cement box so I'm guessing there was also some irrigating going on for crops back in the day. The word "well" is even on one of the HAZ topo maps of the area on Route Scout.

I didn't find that until just now while writing this log. Photos in photoset.