Y Bar Rocks Photoset • chumley • 2025-12-13 • HikeArizona.COM

Y Bar Rocks, AZ

	2025-12-13
	19 by chumley

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Y Bar Rocks, AZ

Hiking	13.14 Miles	3,925 AEG

Hiking	13.14 Miles	7 Hrs 38 Mns	2.02 mph
	3,925 ft AEG	1 Hour 7 Mns Break

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Y Bar Trail #44

Shake Tree Trail # 44

Mazatzal Peak Summit

Barnhardt Trail #43

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The oft-maligned crown jewel of the Tonto National Forest trail system seemed like a worthy destination today and we set out early to bitch and gripe while stubbing toes and turning ankles.

After the joy, we made a quick side trip up to the summit for a tuna lunch before heading down the north drainage. A patch of snow and a few icicles on the edges of the waterfalls. Still some trickles in the smaller drainages and still-saturated soil in most places.

Startled a fox napping in a manzanita thicket and got to watch it take a leisurely escape route away from us. Pestered by nuisance gnats most of the day. Didn't see the actual Emerick, though his visitation was clearly apparent from across the way

. No sign of a too elderly backpacker or anybody else at all. Two other vehicles in the lot to start were gone when we finished. Must be too warm to hike. (It did hit 78 in the sun, though it generally hovered in the upper 50s in the shade).

Barnhardt Creek at Half Moon Trail

Light flow

Big Kahuna Falls - Mazatzal Wilderness

Light flow

	Garden Seep	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	Not sure if it's really Garden Seep ... there's a nice flow across the trail just uphill from this location. It seems to becoming a more reliable water source in recent years.

Hawaiian Mist

Pools to trickle

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