DESTINATION Pozora Benchmark - Pozo Verde Mtns HP 1 Photoset
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| Hiking | 2.27 Miles |
904 AEG |
| | Hiking | 2.27 Miles | 2 Hrs 6 Mns | | 1.35 mph |
| 904 ft AEG | 25 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | After hiking for a couple of days in the Tucson area, I decided to drive down to near the border to do this hike before heading back north to the VOS.
I left pavement just before getting to the Arizona town of Sasabe, and then drove on one of the best gravel roads that I have ever driven on. Instead of parking at the parking lot, I drove a ways on the lesser road that serves as a trail for the first part of the hike. Instead of driving to the end of the road, I parked about half-way just to stretch my legs a little more on this short hike.
The road walking was easy, and then I had to make a fairly steep off-trail ascent. There was a decent amount of vegetation, but it was not a problem to weave around the worst of it. The footing was good and there was not a lot of rock to deal with, so the off-trail was not as difficult as a lot of these southern Arizona peaks are. There are a number of cattle trails and use trails to take, which helped with getting around some of the brush.
I saw a bit of migrant trash -- one backpack and several of those black one gallon water bottles. The backpack had been there a while, but I could not tell how long the water bottles had been there.
It was a straight shot up a slope to the summit. I easily located the benchmark and both reference marks. There were some expansive views at the summit, so I hung around up there for a bit and had a snack.
I returned the same way that I came. On the descent, I took advantage of being in an elevated position and followed the cattle trails and use trails almost the whole way down -- I hardly brushed up against any vegetation at all on the descent.
After the hike I had planned to drive across the border to Sasabe, Mexico and have some tacos. However, there are some cartel wars going on there right now -- gunfire in the streets, kidnappings, residences being burned, etc. In fact, I read an article from the legacy media that said that the town, which normally has 2,500 people living there, is down to around 20 people. That being the case, I thought it best to stay on the US side of the border.
So instead of having some delicious tacos after the hike, I sadly had to settle for a bag of salted peanuts from Circle K. |
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