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| Hiking | 7.66 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 7.66 Miles | 4 Hrs 26 Mns | | 1.97 mph |
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| no partners | | All the water! In every wash, drainage, on the trail, any nook or cranny. Some impressive waterfalls. And some creek crossings were unavoidably wet.
Also:ALL THE RAIN! The weatherman LIES! To be fair, I should know better and be better prepared, but I am always trying shed pack weight while backpacking... Oops. The single-wall Tarp tent is not well suited to 7 hours of straight rain. I don't mean showers. I mean knock down, drag out thunderstorm with gale force winds and torrential rain. For hours. Interspersed with showers and regular rain and just high winds. Poor tent. It was already on its last leg, and the superstitions weather last night helped speed its demise. Second error, why didn't I bring my proper raincoat? Probably because it was only supposed to shower between midnight and 2a last night, so no real need for it. Oops. Mother nature wins again!  I could swear I learned this before, to always always bring a raincoat, but nope. Lesson relearned today after hiking out in 45 degree heavy rain for an hour or so.
This segment was day 2,the hike out from Charlebois spring area to Peralta TH. After an eventful night spent trying to keep dry (thank goodness for the space blanket I put over my down sleeping bag to keep it mostly dry), we started off at about 730a. None of the other 15 to 20 people camping in the charlebois area were up yet. The weather started off dry which was pleasant and meant we were able to enjoy the music canyon area. It's so beautiful and a favorite area of mine!
In addition to the many backpackers near charlebois, there was also a couple people in the dense tree area by music canyon, and a couple just before the junction with red tanks. More were near la barge spring, and another couple tents at the junction of bluff spring and Dutchman. It was a backpacker kind of weekend despite the torrential rain, ha!!
Weather was good until just after the junction with red tanks. And then the rain and cold winds made it miserable. And it was like that for quite some time. Until quite far into the bluff spring trail.  It is hard to enjoy the amazing views and shifting clouds and fog when your arms are going numb. Boo. The good news is the rain finally let up! Yippee! There was some light rain, but it was significantly better than than previously.
There is a ridiculous amount of water on the bluff springs trail section. Usually the trail goes through the wash quite a bit, but that's all underwater. And there were some great waterfalls along the way. Beautiful!
A bit wet for my unpreparedness, but still a beautiful backpack trip in the supes!   |
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