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| Hiking | 5.30 Miles |
1,531 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.30 Miles | 3 Hrs 53 Mns | | 1.68 mph |
| 1,531 ft AEG | 44 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This was a hike to the summit of Peak 3651, the highpoint of the Hell's Canyon Wilderness.
I drove in on Castle Hot Springs Road for a good ways, and then made a right turn onto Cedar Basin Road. Cedar Basin Road was in better shape than I thought it would be, although it is still a 4WD road. I drove in about 1.3 miles and parked at Garfias Wash. I could have driven further, but the hike was fairly short so I was fine with doing a bit of road walking.
I walked on the road until I got to Horse Creek Tank, where I left the road and headed up to the peak from the northwest. I followed some cattle trails down to a drainage, and then just headed uphill on some slopes. It got fairly brushy as I gained elevation, but the brush wasn't as nasty as it is on some hikes -- there was a lot of jojoba, which isn't too bad to go through.
The slopes were a bit steep and there was some loose rock in places, but it wasn't too bad. There was a bit of scrambling, but nothing more than fairly easy class 2.
There were nice views at the summit, especially to Lake Pleasant to the east.
Until I started to do this triplog, I was not aware that there was a guide on HAZ for this peak. In preparing for the hike I had done a search for "Peak 3651", but nothing came up since the name on HAZ includes a comma, i.e., the entry is "Peak 3,651". The standard peak naming convention omits the comma, but next time that I do a search on HAZ I will also try a search that includes a comma.
I got rained on a bit on the last part of the hike, but at least there was no hail and no flash floods this time, so things are trending in the right direction!
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Wildflowers Observation Light
It was a toss-up between "light" and "moderate" for the wildflower description, so I flipped a coin and "light" came out on top. There are lots of fiddlenecks out there, along with some of the others that I have been seeing this spring. |
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