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Davenport Trail Water Cache, AZ
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| Backpack | 23.60 Miles |
3,881 AEG |
| | Backpack | 23.60 Miles | 2 Days | | |
| 3,881 ft AEG | | | | |
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| partners | | We had an upcoming trail maintenance event on Davenport Trail in 2 weeks. I was a little concerned about the water situation and wanted to setup a water cache. So Kathy and I hiked into Chilson Camp from Barnhardt TH fairly early and upon arrival setup camp at Chislon and had some lunch.
After lunch we grabbed our relatively empty packs and some collapsible water containers and hiked westbound on Davenport Trail down to the South Fork of Deadmans Creek. As expected SF Deadman was flowing nicely with great water. We took a good break and then I began filling up the water containers for total of 8.5 gallon capacity.
With full containers (35 lbs in each pack) we hiked the 1.75 miles and about 500 plus feet AEG up the trail to the upcoming event camp spot that I selected from previous trail work. Once there it was about 430 and we pretty spent from the effort but we still had to hike all the way back to Chilson. I dropped the water cache and secured it in a tarp and then we started the 4.6 miles back to Chilson.
Even though Davenport is a trail it's still backcountry quality and not like the AZT so it took awhile to hike back. Also, dropping into SF Deadman creek we had a 1300 foot climb back up to Chilson Camp. Safe to say it took awhile and we did not arrive back at Chilson until 8pm and hiked the last hour by headlamp. We were also completely spent so that slowed us down as well.
Fortunately, John 9L had hiked in to join us for the camping part and he had everything setup, camp fire included at Chilson. Was very nice just to walk into camp and sitdown around the camp fire 
After nice night in camp the next day we hiked out together out to Barnhardt TH arriving about 130. Tough trip but was very happy to get the water cache in the right place!! |
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