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Salome Creek Wanderings Day 1, AZ
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Salome Creek Wanderings Day 1, AZ 
Salome Creek Wanderings Day 1, AZ
 
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Park McFadden Trail #55
Park Creek Falls
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Satellite showed no snow and water levels are super low so we decided to swing over to Phoenix earlier than usual. Driving out of town New Year's Day morning was great, hardly any traffic. Some dude was puking in the shoulder of 60.

No snow visible anywhere on the drive up or on trail. We decided to shortcut in a bit by walking up FR 2770 and XCing up to the #55 trail. Parked at a wide dirt area off 288 33.88902, -110.96459 and followed FR 2770 until we passed a wash with some corrugated drainage tubing 33.89063, -110.97156, then cut left on a very faint road a few hundred feet and headed up towards the trail. Rolly fairly open scrub forest, we got lucky and came across a log over an old barbed wire fence at 33.89044, -110.97331 and then hit trail, passing a few old large cairns.

I brought my old Gregory Baltoro 70 pack out of storage for water carries in the SW this year, and and uh, it worked well after sitting around for the decade I've been using lighter packs. Went up with 11.4L of water, a drone with all it's accessories, and an Anker 737 battery to recharge the drone batteries. The dumbest pack I've carried, but kept it slow and made it to camp fine (my partner brought in all the food and 4.5L of water herself).

McFadden Creek was dry everywhere we saw it aside from some tannic but clear looking puddles below the striking falls alongside the #55 trail (we call it triple falls). Park Creek had a few pools but was mostly dry - one above Park Falls was disgusting and smelled like a cow tank, you could scramble down above into the intermediary ledge system and get a pool of frozen but seemingly non-disgusting water.

Park Tank was.... low.

Rock Spring actually looked less disgusting than last year - I'd assumed it'd be more pressured by cattle.

Turkey and Little Turkey were dry where FR 2747 crossed them, but had pools and/or flow in other places. We kicked up some cow patties out of the way and set up our camp. A new looking fire ring off to the side, one of the old ones from last year had been destroyed. Neither were particularly well built, but the new one is further off from the main camping area at least. :)
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[ checklist ]  Park Canyon Creek  Park Canyon Creek - Upper Falls  Park Tank  Rock Spring  Triple Falls - McFadden

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Cataract Creek - Sierra Ancha Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some clear pools, best bet are smaller ones that usually are flowing vs the deeper permanent pools. Some frozen over.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Indian Camp Canyon Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some clear pools, best bet are smaller ones that usually are flowing vs the deeper permanent pools. Some frozen over.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max J R Canyon Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some quite clear pools in here, many frozen.

water 1 out of 5water 2 out of 5water less than maxwater less than max Little Turkey Creek - Sierra Ancha Light flow Light flow
Flowing better than Salome Creek above this oddly enough.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max McFadden Creek Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Dry aside from small pools below falls to the side of the #55 trail.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Park Canyon Creek Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some pools, mostly dry.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Park Canyon Creek - Lower Falls Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some pools below the falls, one above that was disgusting.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Park Canyon Creek - Upper Falls Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Some pools below the falls, one above that was disgusting.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Park Tank 1-25% full 1-25% full
Maybe a little over 25% but not much.

water 1 out of 5water 2 out of 5water less than maxwater less than max Rock Spring Quart per minute Quart per minute
Maybe a quart per minute. Had some flow out of it. No actual cow feces in the pool this time.

water 1 out of 5water 2 out of 5water less than maxwater less than max Thoroughbred Pasture Tank 26-50% full 26-50% full

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Triple Falls - McFadden Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
No flow, decent pool below upper falls

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Turkey Creek Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Dry at the FR crossings. Some pools above and below.

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Turkey Creek Falls - Upper Pools to trickle Pools to trickle
Pools only.
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