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Cross F TH Anti-connector, AZ
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| Backpack | 1.43 Miles |
319 AEG |
| | Backpack | 1.43 Miles | 1 Hour 8 Mns | | 1.68 mph |
| 319 ft AEG | | 22 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | This is 3 of 3 triplogs for this day of backpacking. (I'll see if I can Link all 3 logs after I've written all 3.)
Basically, I just want to show what Route NOT to take from the Cross F TH en route to the Sunflower Trail/Little Saddle Mountain junction. (The correct Route is uploaded on my log for Sunflower Trail #344.)
Important Notes:
- Head west (left turn) when you arrive at the 15 foot high "gate." (See photo.)
- The Connector can be a little treacherous at times when coming back/downhill to the Cross F TH, because it's sometimes steep with crumbly rock.
- There was water along the Connector! (No source is shown on the maps that I have.)
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I had arrived at the Cross F TH intending to take the Connector to the Sunflower/LSM Trail junction to start my trip sobo on the Sunflower Trail. (Although that's the long way around. In my sobo triplog, I show a shortcut if you intend to hike south on #344.)
I first hiked this Connector in February of this year. And I didn't go off trail back then. (I don't remember if I was using GPS at the time. If so, I was using OsmAnd, a marginal app for trails.)
But I'm ashamed to report that this time I took a wrong turn.
I dunno. Maybe it was hubris, having been an "old hand" on this Connector before. Or maybe the big cattle trail that I mistakenly turned onto wasn't as large and well traveled this past winter. (I barely noticed the narrow fork to the correct trail.) Or maybe I have no common sense - I blame the public school system - not realizing that I should be heading west, toward those big mountains.
Anyway, I hiked about a half mile, noticed some scenery that I hadn't noticed in February, and then finally looked at Route Scout. That's when I saw that I was way off course. (I am apparently also functionally illiterate, because, despite Joe's instructions in RS, I did not have pinning enabled at this time. (Although I don't know if that would have made any difference because, later, when I was coming off the AZT with pinning, RS was buzzing at me the whole time that I was on this Connector back to the Cross F TH.)) |
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