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Salome Creek Wanderings Day 3, AZ
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| no partners | | Same start as the day before, but we turned north up Salome Creek. The nice open slick rock (that area I first encountered it was just a nice spot) gave way to an overgrown (if gentle bashing) creekbed that opened up into a few nice spots.
While neither Cataract or Indian Camp Canyon have any bucket list features, I really enjoyed them both - ICC had a lot of nice pillars, and all the pines in Cataract gave it a nice vibe (mountain forest up high, SW slickrock down low). Both were easy to navigate which was appreciated. It'd be fun to come back when they were flowing as there would be a lot of charming cascades with little to no navigation issues.
Cows don't like rock, I imagine their hooves don't get great traction on it (I've seen a deer move well on talus, but it didn't seem like it was having a lot of fun). A lot more signs of them up near the top of cataract and on large raised benches near exits on the creeks than the visually nicer sections, though a dropping could be found nearly anywhere.
Scouted out a cut from ICC once it petered out and had a surprisingly pleasant wiggle of ledges, drainages, and open pasture up to FR 486. After some hemming and hawing we decided to wiggle over onto Redman Mesa, which had a nice very "western" vibe. After seeing some cows in the distance admiring the same tall flowering Yucca we had passed by earlier, we got some views down into Turkey Creek then went down a cairned trail. Well started going down it, then went on a cow track, and then just winged it. Turned out fine, and dropped out only a 7 minute walk to camp! |
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