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| Hiking | 2.60 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 2.60 Miles | 2 Hrs 51 Mns | | 1.11 mph |
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| no partners | | I've been wanting to hike up Sitgreaves for a while now. There's a geocache at the summit that I wanted to make my 5000th find. So since I was at 4999 caches found, it was time to hike up here.
Drove in on FR 705, which is off FR 74. This road goes up 800' in about a mile, not to mention it some sections were rutted. Made it within 1 mile to the summit as the crow flies. Though I made it with high clearance, 2wd, and careful wheel placement, the truck was struggling in section. 4x4 recommended for anyone else who decides to drive up that way.
I found a way up that didn't involve going up or down any false summits. Still with 1600' in 1 mile isn't easy. This first .5 or .6 miles is actually pretty easy compared to the final .5 or .6 miles to the top. Final stretch is 1000' gain in .5ish miles. So every 300ish horizontal feet equals 100 vertical feet. Since I mostly went straight up, this section was difficult, having to take short breaks every 100' vertical feet. Though after 90 minutes of hiking (including those short breaks) I made it to the summit.
Found the summit log and benchmark. I sadly did not find the geocache, but was given permission from the cache owner to replace it. After taking some photos I headed back down. Going down, while difficult was still much faster than the journey up. Enjoyable hike it all. Might hike back up in a week or two and bring an metal ammo can with me to replace the geocache with. As the current container is a Nalgene bottle as it was all I had on me. Though if FR 705 becomes impassable I might have to wait.
Video I took at the summit:
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