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| Hiking | 8.50 Miles |
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| no partners | | I did an out and back to the summit of McCleary Peak, which was the last of the Rita Crest summits I needed. I am using the loop description because it fits best as I hiked from Madera Canyon, not Florida Canyon.
Trails are 99% snow free to Shovel Saddle, and then there was some snow but nothing serious until closer to McCleary Saddle. If the brush and bushwhack was more than I wanted, I would have aborted at the saddle, but there is a fairly decent social trail to the summit of McCleary and it isn't all that much worse than the current state of the 4 Springs trail past Shovel Saddle, which is more of a commentary on the upper 4 Springs and is part of why I generally don't hike that area. Still, this was a decent outing to something different and not a bad hike to roll me over 4.4 million feet of AEG.
It was very windy and a little cold, but the sun was strong. Still very wintry up high, but it is still very early, too. There is a lot of water in the lower drainages from snow melt, but the north side of the upper 4 Springs is covered in deep snow.
I found a cartel or other solar powered battery radio relay just off the summit. It is spray painted to be camouflaged and was very tightly secured to a bush. I disassembled it and left it. |
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