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Superstitions Cave/Terrapin/Bluff Loop, AZ
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| no partners | | An afternoon start to one night trip - mostly because we hadn't been backpacking in around two months vs just making it a dayhike. Drycamped off the cave trail with great views and enjoyed it quite a lot.
The cave trail is easy to follow once you hit the spur that comes up from Peralta - LOTS of people heading to the viewpoint. I assume that segment is on alltrails? Fainter before that with some routefinding needed up from the bluff trail (no sign) and some steep class 2 heading up to the ridge with the "cave" in it (more of an alcove). We ended up offroute a few times, but enjoyed our detours, stumbling across an alcove someone had camped in (modern) and finding some cairned game trails.
The trail E of weaver's needle is a strong single track use trail in places, non-existent in a few spots, somewhat cairned. We started off too far N and ended up taking a harder route in to the main saddle, but passed some nice pillars. Overall this and the cave trail were the most enjoyable areas, though some spots south of the Terrapin trail and Barks canyon looked neat too.
We enjoyed the mix of geology - sort of a bit of white canyon, JT, and the ancha rolled into one and will be back to poke around more later. Overall a more interesting overall area of the supes than the spots I was in before, which tended to have highlights but less overall interesting terrain.
Tons of water - the ridge of the cave trail had some trickles and small pools but wasn't as good as I thought it might be. We packed in a little extra water to keep things simple since packs were light. Dropping from Fremont Saddle a lot of side creeks were flowing, and obvious drainages had flowing water in them which often seemed a bit better quality than the main creeks.
A shorter but more interesting version of what I assume the "Big Weaver's Needle Loop" is. Someone doing that kept arguing with me that I needed to do the PCT lol. |
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