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| | Hiking | 5.50 Miles | 3 Hrs 13 Mns | | 1.74 mph |
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| partners | | | On day 4 we went back to Palo Duro and this time hiked the Capitol Peak Trail. This is about the only trail in the park I hadn’t been on before. This is a mountain bike trail but It heads up Capitol Creek and no other trail heads up that canyon. The trail itself is a 3 mile loop trail with the usual scenery of Palo Duro Canyon. The trail does a lot of meaningless loops as do a lot of mountain bike trails and is easy walking. We kept a keen eye out for bikers, didn’t see any till later in the day. The real part of the hike was off trail heading up Capitol Creek. Not as easy walking as yesterday’s hike in Little Sunday Creek but still interesting. There was water in the upper reaches in small mud pools and in places a light trickle. Lots of animal tracks as would be expected where there is water. This canyon gets hard to navigate about .75 miles in from the trail with lots of boulders clogging the creek that have fallen from the canyon walls that have really closed in by now. Shortly after the boulder hopping the canyon ends at a water fall. Unlike Sunday creek this canyon looks like it could be a route to the rim above by circumventing the falls on either side. Not sure what obstacles are above the falls, for what it is worth Google Earth makes it look like it is doable. Good short hike before heading back to Lubbock. The weather held out with temps in the 60’s and except for one day it wasn’t windy |
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