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| Hiking | 21.86 Miles |
2,541 AEG |
| | Hiking | 21.86 Miles | 8 Hrs 34 Mns | | 2.67 mph |
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| partners | | Finally got to get together with Brian to hike a section of the AZT. good thing because everyone else has been dropping like flies. Seems like the farther the drives, the more things come up for a reason to cancel  .
We dropped my vehicle off at the Casa Blanca Canyon TH and headed up to the Apache Springs TH to hike SOBO. I downloaded the .gpx file from the AZT website since it's been recently rerouted in a few sections. This track gave an AEG of 1471', but in actuality it turned out to more like nearly 2600'.
Wrightson still has some snow on the north facing slopes, but not as much as has been thru the winter. The views down below into the various canyons are nice, and looking out in the distance the nearby mountain ranges also look nice, some still also have some snow left.
the start of the trail at the north end has an old flume used to move water to Kentucky Camp for the mining they did there. Other than that, not much signs of mining or other historical activity in this section. A few herds of cows here and there. Saw a few thru hikers and mountain bikers, but traffic was pretty light.
The last section downhill through the side canyons was a bit monotonous because after every switchback it looked the same as the previous side canyon. around the 7 mile mark on our descent before the big climb before the junction with the Temporal Gulch Trail, that section looked very new and freshly dug and cut.
Total turned out to be 22 miles, which might be record for me for a dayhike. I was expecting to be hurting more by the end, but I took some ibuprofen after lunch to preventatively fend that off.
finished up by 5pm and had a long drive home, but the traffic was a bit lighter than the usual Saturday afternoon rush. |
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