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Green Guthrie Maverick, AZ
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| Run/Jog | 7.59 Miles |
2,580 AEG |
| | Run/Jog | 7.59 Miles | 3 Hrs 26 Mns | | 2.45 mph |
| 2,580 ft AEG | 20 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | Didn't have much of a plan, just wanted to get out of the house and try out the legs. Decided to do Guthrie Mountain with some side trips if I felt like it.
Got going a little before 10am, air felt a little moist but the thin clouds hanging around to the east were promising from a thunderstorm-risk standpoint. At the saddle just above the TH, I accidently took a social trail, figured it probably goes up Green Mountain, and decided to get that out of the way early. Pretty straightforward getting to the top: go up until you gain the ridge, then follow the ridge up. Wasn't sure where the true summit was, couldn't find a marker - from the top the south end of the summit looked higher, but from Guthrie the north end looked higher. Might have been perspective, because looking at topo maps later it seems it is indeed the south end.
Had the thought of trying to go down the east ridge to the Bear saddle, but couldn't see the whole way down so decided against it. That also probably would've been a terrible idea judging from the view from Guthrie.
Anyways, went back down to GM trail, then to Bear saddle, and up Guthrie Mtn trail. GM trail is burned more or less from the first saddle all the way to the Brush Corral Shortcut. After that, it was more or less still green in a lot of places.
Guthrie Mountain trail wasn't terribly hard to follow, overgrown in a few places but pretty straightforward. Some nice fir forest on the north side of the summit.
On the way back, decided to check out Maverick Spring trail, since it was right there. Mostly burned, but not too hard to follow. Got to a drainage with a small seep in it; my map showed the trail continues another hundred feet or so along the contour, but this was just a fern thicket, so I decided that would be silly. My map just said "Maverick Spring" without a point, and the words covered like a 500 foot long stretch, so I decided not to look for it. Looking at other maps later, it seems it's actually straight down the drainage from where the track disappears into the ferns. At any rate, I don't think there's any reason this trail really needs to exist now that the forest is burned to a crisp.
Right when I got back to the GM trail, someone said my name, which caught me off guard at first, but made more sense when I saw that it was a friend in Tucson on his way back down to Hitchcock. We stopped and chatted for awhile, then continued on our separate ways.
By this time, clouds had started filling in over the mountains, so I started getting a little worried about weather. Also, the muscle that problems a few weeks ago started acting up, so it was definitely strained. So I bailed on doing the Brush Corral loop (actually went 100 feet or so down before I decided to bail). Started getting some sprinkles before the other Brush Corral junction.
Fun time, while a lot of the north slopes are burned, the views are still nice, and Green Mountain trail is still in pretty good shape. |
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Creek has pools and trickles. Spring box isn’t flowing at all but has water in it. The water is better in the creek though. 
