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| Hiking | 2.87 Miles |
449 AEG |
| | Hiking | 2.87 Miles | 1 Hour 21 Mns | | 2.15 mph |
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| partners | | The last hike of day 2 was to Ward Spring. This was a short 3 mile round trip hike again off of the Ross Maxwell Road. This trail has a 500 foot elevation gain but is fairly easy walking with only one section of aggressive climbing that was about 100 yards long. The clouds were down on the Chisos Mountains just above our heads and the drizzle was pretty constant.
Ward Spring is pretty overgrown and we probably didn’t get right to the spring because of the thick overgrowth, didn’t feel like getting even wetter by pushing our way through the brush. The creek bed had water in it right near the spring but went underground immediately. There are some rock formations around the spring that are part of volcanic sills that cut through the rock. The sills are the reason for the spring. Would have been nice to explore a little more around these sills but it was getting late and the weather was a bit wet. My $5:00 rain poncho was torn from the Burror Mesa trail and wasn’t doing much good. I bought this poncho while doing the Arizona Trail north of Grand Canyon when it was snowing and it has lasted for at least 4 years, guess I got my money’s worth out of it.
Got back to Terlingua for dinner and a shower, got the dinner but power went out in the area and there was therefore no water. Being in the middle of nowhere it took about 6 hours before it was repaired, sometime in the middle of the night. That’s why they call it an adventure.
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