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| Hiking | 10.30 Miles |
1,131 AEG |
| | Hiking | 10.30 Miles | 4 Hrs 55 Mns | | 2.40 mph |
| 1,131 ft AEG | 37 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | I’d always been curious about some of the bigger and littler named geographic features in this area and decided to explore. Parts of my route jogged out of the wilderness and onto parcels of private land. The taxman has contact info for the owners should you choose to respect these boundaries, because, as one hiking partner clearly stated: "they shoot first out there and ask questions later"; facts.
I was disappointed and surprised that there wasn't more surface water flowing. The area received over half an inch of rain this week, on top of last month's rain and mountain snowmelt. But apparently there's way more sand than bedrock out here, and only pools were found in the two gates along Bitter Creek, and some light flow and pools in the narrow canyon stretch of Garfias Wash. The rest was sandy and sandy. The rain had done well and compacted the sand and made travel much more pleasant. Give it a few days for the burros and cattle to turn it all up again.
The desert is super green and grasses are covering all of it. Luckily it's still new growth and not thick or deep enough for me to be particularly wary of not seeing a cute little nope rope. Not much in the way of flowers yet, but I suspect that will change out here over the next couple of weeks. Who knows though.
While I've obviously punched my ticket, I was still curious if I would prefer the little or big gate. I'll take little over big in this instance. It's both tighter and wetter! |
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Wildflowers Observation Isolated
Under the modern social media definition… a superbloom! Otherwise, just a few spots with poppies |
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| | | Horse Creek is dry. However there's nice water in Garfias below this junction for about half a mile before going underground. | | _____________________
| I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies. |
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