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| | Hiking | 1.11 Miles | 53 Mns | | 2.02 mph |
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| no partners | | After hiking Mt. Trumbull in the morning, I started the drive over to Mount Logan. A better description of the route to Mount Logan to add to the guide for that trip would be to say, from just south of the Mount Trumbull trailhead on County Road 5 turn right onto Road 1044. Stay on 1044 until you get to the boundary of the Mount Logan wilderness. At a T intersection 1044 goes south and 1064 goes north to the Mount Logan trailhead. There’s a sign here pointing to the right at the T intersection towards Mount Logan. I found the Avenza maps app loaded with the Arizona Strip West geocoded PDF to be extremely valuable for this part of the trip. That map is available on the BLM website. Google maps does not have these roads correctly. Neither does my Garmin map. This road is definitely high clearance, and I would recommend a 4 x 4.
The road ends at the trailhead. There’s no restroom or water here, but there’s a nice parking area and an interpretive sign. The view from the parking area is spectacular but the view from the summit is even better. There were only two entries in the trailhead in the last two months. This area doesn’t get much traffic. The trail follows along the edge of the cliff up to the summit. The trail is faint in places as it’s buried under Ponderosa pine needles. There is a row of pinecones in the trough of the trail.
It’s a short half mile up to the summit. When you get there, the view is overwhelming. You are looking down into Hells Hole, a canyon that is multicolored and very deep. If heights bother you, you’re going to want to stay back from the edge. You can see all the way over to the west end of the Grand Canyon here. If you’re not sure where the Grand Canyon is, you will see to the south a butte that could only match the name of Molly’s Nipple. That tower is on the north side of the Grand Canyon.
It’s an even shorter half mile back to the car because it’s downhill. It was still early afternoon so I headed out to spend the night at Kanab, Utah before driving home the next day. |
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