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| Salome Creek Wanderings Day 2, AZ | |
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Salome Creek Wanderings Day 2, AZ
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| no partners | | Not the earliest start as the lows in that drainage were well below forecasts (cold air sinks), which was expected, but not quite it being 24 instead of 37.
Dropped off of FR 2747 at 33.92018, -111.04061 and wiggled our way down to Salome Creek via hoof paths and open pasture to Salome Creek and proceeded downstream.
JR Canyon really caught my eye last year, but we didn't have time to poke up it before. The lower stretch was great, but odd to see it go from strong cascades to small pools - though the contrast was IMO more interesting than just going from really heavy flow to a less interesting one.  It got a little less interesting after a bit, then picked up to nice slickrock again. Right around the private property boundary it got overgrown, so great timing! Got some nice reflections off of pools in here, and had fun sliding across one well frozen pool.
From here we went down Salome Creek - really nice open slickrock (similar to the confluence area around Little Turkey) extended on for a while, then we got down to some nice rolly granite. Shortly after turning the corner my Radiacode 103 started chirping - this continued on and off for most of this section. Mostly just count alarms (hey there's something to look at!), but it wasn't uncommon for the dose to be a few times higher than background radiation, and one (very visually striking section) it hit over 1µSv. Not terrible to pass by, but I'd not camp on granite in this area! In between the short rolly bits it was fairly overgrown and bouldery, but not too bad. More tedious than challenging. This was the only section the entire trip that triggered an alarm from it.
We were nearing the creek dropping from Thoroughbred and had to do a high bypass - the section looked fairly rough and given short days we just decided to do a more direct XC cut back to FR 7250 / the nearby tank. It was pretty smooth, mostly open pasture terrain and a few clumps of mostly open forest. We hit the old cleared / limbed trail (now cow maintained) below the tank and then road walked back to camp. Next year we could drop down thoroughbred and check out the rest of Salome until it hits the rapps, or poke up Park from there or something. |
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