Mazatzal AZT Red Hills Trail Recon Photoset • BiFrost • 2025-09-27 • HikeArizona.COM

Mazatzal AZT Red Hills Trail Recon, AZ

	2025-09-27
	14 by BiFrost

Mazatzal AZT Red Hills Trail Recon, AZ

Backpack	21.72 Miles	4,833 AEG

Backpack	21.72 Miles	3 Days
	4,833 ft AEG

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We hiked into the AZT Red Hills section to recon for an upcoming AZT Red Hills Trail event. Unfortunately, it was one of the weekends with the heavy rain forecast. However, I was running out of weekends to do a recon of the section to see what work needed to be done. We pushed the trip back a day hoping that Friday would be the heaviest rain and also arrived later on Saturday to hopefully miss even more forecasted rain.

We started hiking from City Creek Trailhead just before 1pm. There was the threat of rain but on the 6 miles up to the AZT junction only had a light rain a few times. Arrived at camp just before 530 and started to setup. We had everything setup and was rehydrating our meal and then the rain moved in about 630. It rained very hard and really didn't stop until around 6 the next morning...but at least it stopped

Got up and had breakfast with the creek next to camp now flowing nicely! Then grabbed our gear and headed to out to check trail conditions. Found several downed trees some being new from last time. Checked all the areas that were in need of brushing and made notes of any other trail work. We hiked all the way to Brush Spring which is the north end of the my section.

At Brush Spring the sign has been in the wrong location for quite a while. One of the goals of the upcoming trail event was to move the sign to correct location and improve an existing route to the spring from the AZT. There was a large tree down on the route to the spring so that would also need to be removed. Took a break at the spring to enjoy some lunch and fortunately the forecast for Sunday which called much less rain chance was correct.

After lunch we hiked the 4 miles back to camp for one more night. Made a few more notes on the way back and enjoyed all the heavily flowing drainages that are normally dry this time of year. Back at camp settled in for the night. Some light rain overnight but nothing like the previous night.

Next morning we hiked back out to City Creek Trailhead and headed for Payson for mexican food at La Sierra!! Great to get the worklist completed before the upcoming trail event!

	Brush Spring	Gallon + per minute	Gallon + per minute
	plenty of water from the spring and in the pools below

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