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| | Hiking | 8.12 Miles | 3 Hrs 14 Mns | | 2.51 mph |
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| no partners | | FR 300 is now paved west to MP 31. Work still in progress.
I started hiking from the dam at 9:30 a.m. There’s a few minor cement structures at the bottom, but nothing really interesting. One structure had the only graffiti on it I recall seeing on the Rim.
The first ⅓ mile below the dam, the canyon was tangled, the vegetation wet with dew and night rain. My feet got soaked and stayed that way the remainder of the day. The humidity — which was murder — did not help. The creek, which had had pooled water, subsequently disappeared underground for a little over a mile.
I managed to follow a game trail part of the way. Where there was no trail, I took the path of least resistance: Sometimes that was up the main channel, other times a side channel, the “island” between the two, or the usually shady shelf to either side.
The canyon’s channels never got too rocky. There were no serious ankle breakers, nor boulders to scamble over. Other than easily avoided spots of further brushiness, there were no obstacles at all: No pours to downclimb, nor deadfall to low crawl. A couple of times, crossing a fern-covered shelf, I had to lift my leg a little higher over deadfall. Does that count as an obstacle?
At the canyon’s 1¾ mile mark, there is non-strenuous bail west to FR 9745A. Just past that, the creek reappeared as a 200 yd. long pool that was up to 18″ deep. At the 2¾ mile mark is a neat little cliff. You could easily bail east, via the side of the cliff, to FR 115M (though that would be a long walk back).
I reached the end of the canyon at the 3-mile mark. I heard ATVs above. The climb out started mellow, then got steeper, but not as bad as other Rim canyons. No obstacles either. And I picked up FR 295 right at the top. No sign of the ATVs.
The first mile on FR 295 was SUV-able; I would avoid it in a car. At the 4⅓ mile mark, to avoid traffic and maximize peace & quiet, I turned right onto decommissioned FR 9715N. FR 295 is the same length, but FR 9715N seemed to have better shade. I took a lunch break at the 5-mile mark. Reconnecting to FR 295 at the 6-mile mark, I soon turned east down FR 295E, back to the lake.
Rumble Video: https://rumble.com/v5c8f70-hiking-east- ... n-rim.html
Vimeo Video: https://vimeo.com/1002301290 |
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Wildflowers Observation Moderate
Besides pictured flowers: desert evening primrose, alpine false springparsley, red & yellow pea, western yarrow, ragleaf bahia, (pineywoods) geranium, linearleaf four-o’clock, western dayflower, orange agoseris, velvety goldenrod, wild bergamot, spreading fleabane, woolly mullein and Geyer’s onion -- though only in a few single blooms, not clusters. |
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