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Sheep Creek Trail Maintenance, AZ
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| Backpack | 11.95 Miles |
1,834 AEG |
| | Backpack | 11.95 Miles | 3 Days | | |
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| no partners | | Joined the Sheep Creek Trail Maintenance event to begin clearing trail on the 8 plus miles between the AZT Saddle Mountain passage and Davenport Trail. Hiked in Friday morning from Mormon Grove TH 4.5 miles to base camp at McFarland Spring.
Once at camp we setup and then headed out for afternoon of trail work. Unfortunately, it started to rain as we left camp and continued all afternoon. Despite the wet conditions we were able to clear a good amount of trail. We wrapped up trail work about 4pm and headed back to camp. Got a fire going and the rain stopped but was still a bit cold.
Next day on the trail working by 830. Things pretty much dried out by 10am which made the trail work easier. Cleared the trail west bound on Sheep Creek passed Squaw Flat Spring which doesn’t exist anymore. However, there was water running in the creek with the winter rains. Took most of the day to clear the trail to the Copper Camp Trail junction about 1 mile from McFarland. The last hour we started up the hill as the trail leaves the drainage before heading back to camp around 4. Rain was all gone and fire was nice to relax after hard day of work.
Last day continued clearing up the hill to Squaw Flat and a real nice patch of old growth Arizona Cypress. Up to this point in the trail work all the areas we had been clearing were impacted by fire so brush and downfall were a major issue. Once in the old growth Cypress the trail was easier to clear. Finished up the afternoon work to where the trail begins an 800 foot descent into the next drainage. We had cleared just under 2 miles of trail before heading back to camp.
Back at camp some of the crew would stay another night and a few hours extra work in the morning but I had to get back out that evening. Only 4.5 miles back to the car and made it there by 645pm. Productive three days of trail work and this was to setup the ACE crew that will be out there in April continuing our work from where we stopped. |
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Squaw Flat Spring |
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| | | There is a spring box but the fire damage filled in any remnants of the spring. However, there was water running in the creek from winter rain and snow. | | _____________________
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