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| Hiking | 2.59 Miles |
757 AEG |
| | Hiking | 2.59 Miles | 2 Hrs 16 Mns | | 1.71 mph |
| 757 ft AEG | 45 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | This was day 1 of my 4 day hiking/camping trip. I left Tucson around 8 or 8.30 am, heading toward Willcox and then North from there.
This is one of those hikes where the drive (from Willcox) was harder than the hike! See my other trip report dated Apr 1st, 2026 for good driving directions. Thanks to Paul McClellan for providing written directions for Greasewood, which I used in created my driving route to Gairn BM. Load the driving route into the peakbagger app and follow it while you drive, whether you have cell signal or not. No need to use the odometer.
I parked on a flat area off the road near a saddle. From here I could tell that I had to cross one shallow wash and follow a ridgeline toward the base of Gairn BM. I could have parked earlier to decrease the length of the hike but the wash seemed deeper back down the road. There was a huge bull on the ridgeline closer to Gairn making noise but when I got closer, the bull moved down the slope to the South.
When I got closer to the base of Gairn, I need to drop down to a saddle. When I looked down I saw two cows laying down near a small tree. They didn't see or hear me until I got within about 100 feet. Once they saw me they ran North. From the saddle I had about 600 feet of elevation to do and taking my time, it took me about 30 minutes. There were some steep sections and I needed to zig-zag a bit, but there was nothing over a class 2.
When I got to the summit, I saw a rock pile with a jar inside. The jar had 2 registries, one old and one newer. The newer registry started in 2023, and the older one was in bad shape but I found an entry from 1988. I found 11 pages of old registry in pretty bad condition but I took photos of all of the pages anyway. I looked around for a US survey marker but didn't find one. I found some wire and some rusted metal bars on the summit.
On the hike down, I took a similar route, but slightly further South. I crossed the wash sooner and got back to my vehicle around 1.30 pm, then had a late lunch. My plan next was to drive over toward Greasewood mtn and do that hike, but it was an incredibly long and tedious drive.
Plants/flowers photographed: plains blackfoot, white mariposa lily, woollystar, white tackstem, fleabane, juniper, largeflower onion, rainbow cactus, desert poppy, Western thistle, silver dwarf morning glory
What's funny is my hike up took about the same time as my drive from Willcox.
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Distance (round trip): 2.59 miles
AEG: 757 feet
Strava moving time: 1 hr 23 mins
Strava elapsed time: 2 hrs 16 mins |
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Michael Williams
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