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| Hiking | 14.48 Miles |
3,148 AEG |
| | Hiking | 14.48 Miles | 8 Hrs 29 Mns | | 1.92 mph |
| 3,148 ft AEG | 57 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | First time to Tule Trailhead! The road to trailhead is in amazing shape! A sedan could make it as of today.
The area is affected by fire, but as this is my first time to the area, I have no comparison. As always seems to be the case with fire areas, some areas are untouched while others are decimated. The severely burned areas look like a Martian landscape with lots of red rock and not much else.
We saw not a single person on the trail all day!! Amazing! I love that! There were no other cars at the trailhead upon arrival or departure.
We made good time to the junction with Two Bar and decided to continue on to see the nearby ruins. So impressive!
Lots and lots of cows on the grassy hillsides surrounding the corral in the ravine. Not too many on or near the trail. We only had to persuade a group of six to move off the trail for us. Cowpies are everywhere. Thankfully, the cows were left behind once we started up the steepest uphill section of Tule trail. I felt that it was fine going up, but going down the same way on the return was not as fun with the loose gravel making some areas slippery.
We were happy to reach the flat area after the main uphill stretch. The fire really devastated in this area, and the forest service cairn trailmarkers are very helpful in knowing where the trail is. The views from here are already stunning, though not as great as from the Two Bar trail by the junction with Tule.
We continued along the flat area for a nice change before it was back to up up up to the two bar junction. The ridge trail here is very burned, but there are beautiful views in every direction. The ridge is quite windy. I was thankful for my windbreaker jacket!
I noticed on our way down that someone left a huge amount of campsite trash on the flat area. Sigh. I took what I could with me for disposal, but apparently I need to start carrying a trash bag. There were probably 20 15oz water bottles in various states of fullness (and grossness) along with a thermos, bowl, ruined tarp, and ace bandage.  . There is a corral here just off the trail that we didn't see on our way up, either. There is also a tank on the flat area, but it was completely dry. As expected, there was no water anywhere on the trail.
A beautiful day to be out hiking! It is so serene out in the Eastern supes.  |
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