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| no partners | | I didn't have much time, and it looked like snow clouds above Granville, but I knew this was likely my last chance to catch some fall color on the Granville Trail, so I went. I stepped out onto the trail in the late afternoon in 34 degree, breezy weather, under overcast skies. Chilly! Green forest turned to an almost fluorescent pink as I arrived at the head of Chase Creek. Wow! I was amazed at how many maples there actually were in this stretch. The rest of the year they just blend in. Spent some time roaming through the trees, then headed up to the ancient overgrown mine. Lots of fossils to be seen, but nothing resembling ore. By the time I got back to my truck, it warmed to 35 degrees. Nice! I have yet to see any other hikers on the Granville Trail. 
The mystery of the day: there was a continuous double strand of yellow wires running along the ground near the trail for at least 0.75 miles, with a sign tied to them reading "danger, high voltage". What?! The Forest Service thought it had something to do with an ADOT widening project, but it was nowhere near the highway. Weird. I just hope those wires don't involve expanding the Morenci open pit mine into the Granville area.  |
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Climbed the .5 mile back down to retrieve it and then back up and around to the south side of the mountain. The next 2 miles of trail was very difficult to follow through all the scratchy overgrowth and had me wishing I'd just gone up Mt Graham like I'd first planned for the day. Plan was to hike the Granville loop and after somehow finding the Frye trail hookup, one look down the trail (or lack of) and I decided to just make this an out & back. The return trip just sucked!!! I got overheated in the now 90+ deg temps causing me to puke gatorade, had a bad fall for the first time in years slicing my thumb to the bone, rolled my ankle on the rocky decent and arrived back at the parking area with the most scratched up legs I've ever had after a hike. Pumpkin You Granville trail was said as I drove out of the campground!!!
On the way back, I noticed another new sign for the "Pinal Trail", which I had been unable to locate until now. It was a hot, sticky afternoon, and the flies were horrendous, but, oh! the beautiful scenery! I love the Coronado Trail 
No thanks!) Plan 2: make a loop out of the Granville, Frye and Pinal Trails. The going was slow on the Granville Trail, with slogging through mud and snow, and lots of snow falling off of branches and landing on me. So I ended up just hiking the Granville Trail. The day didn't go as planned, but it was cool to hike in a new area. I will hike you yet, H.L. Canyon Trail!
