Barnhardt Trail #43 Photoset • david_allen_3 • 2025-08-18 • HikeArizona.COM

Barnhardt Trail #43, AZ

	2025-08-18
	24 by david_allen_3

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Barnhardt Trail #43

Payson, AZ

Barnhardt Trail #43

Payson, AZ

Hiking	5.90 Miles	2,055 AEG

Hiking	5.90 Miles
	2,055 ft AEG

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Started the hike at 8 AM. My plan was to take it easy and mainly stay in the lower canyon under tree cover and it worked well. Explored areas off trail and along Barnhardt Creek that I often overlook. There was water in places but large sections of the creek were dry. Where there is water in the creek it is barely a trickle and many trees up high, above the creek are stressed. Need more rain. Nearly got sprayed by a skunk though I never saw it and something large was nearby a couple of times but not able to see it, possibly javelina. Temps only got to around 95 by late afternoon around 4500 ft level with low humidity and with plenty of tree cover, light breezes and some clouds some of the time it was pleasant and a great day out of the furnace.

Wildflowers Observation Isolated

	Garden Seep	Dripping	Dripping
	Dripping near the makeshift spring box with the ferns growing out of it right next to the trail slightly west of the larger seep.

	Garden Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Light flow. Possibly 2 to 4 quarts per minute.

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