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| Hiking | 3.85 Miles |
820 AEG |
| | Hiking | 3.85 Miles | 3 Hrs 24 Mns | | 1.60 mph |
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| no partners | | Brian and I camped the previous night at Sulphide Dey Ray campsite on the other side of the mountain. Apparently it got as cold as 38 F overnight. It's below my comfort level but I survived OK in my 'Bestop' camper shell.
After the long drive around the mountain, we arrived around 10.30 am. The weather was perfect, even a bit cool in the shade. We saw some cattle sitting down on the side of the road. You know the terrain is tough when the cows walk the roads.
The trail was in pretty good shape overall but there were a few areas along the way where water eroded the trail. This may have been recent since I heard about a severe rain storm in this area about 3 weeks ago. There was a steep hill in the very beginning which followed a barbed wire fence. Then, there were some rolling hills. It was possible to tell that water eroded along the trail and sometimes across the trail in many different areas. There were 2 primitive gates on the trail along the way to the summit. There was also a lot of deadfall and tree branches on the trail that we needed to step over.
The hike is roughly 1.38 miles of trail and a little less than 1/2 mile of open Country from exiting the trail to get to the summit. There was a fire sometime in the last 10 years which burned much of the higher part of East peak, therefore, getting up the final ridgeline to the summit did not involve any bushwhacking at all. It was just an open Country hike through an area of burned trees and bushes. There were some trees and bushes that survived the fire and we did need to do some weaving. Along the trail we saw some wildflowers.
At the summit, there were some nice views of Pinal peak above us. We figured out that it was only something like 1.5 miles from the saddle along the trail. I believe that trail is washed out badly because I tried to hike it a few years ago but turned around because of the massive amount of deadfall and erosion. We also had some views of the Dripping Springs area to the West which we visited a few times before.
At the summit there was also a registry in a rock pile. There was a small notebook that had entries from about the year 2000. We also found some damaged pages from an older registry that started around 1991. We signed the registry, took some summit photos and headed back to the starting point going the same way we came. On the way back I found an old horseshoe!
** There was historic flooding TWICE in the Globe, AZ area. **
-Rainfall from Hurricane Priscilla caused flooding in several Gila County communities.
-The flooding occurred just weeks after a previous deadly flood in the same area.
-Officials issued flood warnings, urging residents to shelter in place and move to high ground.
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Directions
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From Globe, AZ
You can try setting Google maps to 'Pioneer pass'.
If that does not work, try this...
Turn right onto S Broad St, continue for 0.5 mi
Turn right onto S Hill St, continue for 233 ft
Turn left onto S Jesse Hayes Rd, continue for 0.8 mi
Continue straight onto 6 Shooter Canyon Rd for 0.1 mi
Turn right onto Ice House Canyon Rd, continue for 10 mi
Destination will be on the left
Pioneer Pass
Arizona 85501
There is room for 3 or 4 cars at the trailhead
Stats
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3.85 miles RT
820 feet AEG
Strava moving time 2 hrs 3 mins
Strava elapsed time 3 hrs 24 mins |
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