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| NF-95 Explore from Rose Crk Campground, AZ | |
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NF-95 Explore from Rose Crk Campground, AZ
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| Hiking | 5.12 Miles |
933 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.12 Miles | 4 Hrs 22 Mns | | 1.48 mph |
| 933 ft AEG | 55 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | The Rose Creek Campground was my last stop on a multi-night car camping and hiking trip to the Sierra Ancha Mountains. It's a small CG with about 6 sites, no outhouse, no tables and no water (except Rose Crk), just fire pits. I was the only camper and didn't see anyone until a couple drove through in the morning. I was tired from a strenuous all day hike and thinking about heading for home a day earlier than planned the next morning. But after waking up refreshed after a good night's sleep and taking the time to cook a big breakfast of sausage patties and eggs with fried potatoes, I was ready for more hiking.
Exploring old NF-95 that passes the CG a short distance up the hillside seemed like a good, easy, hike for my last day. The road doesn't show up on current maps but is shown on my ancient Garmin GPS topo map. I got a late start due to a prolonged conversation with the couple who drove through camp while I was strapping on my gaiters for some potential off-trail scrambling. So this ended up being a shorter hike than anticipated. After a short (0.2 mile) bushwhack up the steep hillside I reached the old road and found it to be in surprisingly good shape. This road is no longer in use although tire tracks indicate ATVs have been on it, probably from entrances on the private property along Rose Creek. After closely paralleling the western boundary of the private property for about 0.4 miles, the road turns southwest and starts up the hillside following the Bear Creek drainage. Some good views to the east open up through the trees as the road gains some elevation on the hillside. Rounding a bend in the road to the northwest reveals an old abandoned late 1950s International 4wd truck on the roadside. This provoked my interest partly because I'm an old retired gear head but also because my father had a similar 1956 version of this truck when I was growing up on our ranch on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. After wasting way too much time taking photos of the truck and thinking about the good times we had with my father's truck, I decided it was time to head back to camp. |
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