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With the cool-ish weather forecast in store for the weekend, decided it would be nice opportunity for a loop in the Mazatzals. I had done parts of this loop before, with the biggest unknown being Pole Hollow Creek between City Creek TH and Mineral Creek TH.

Pole Hollow ~3 miles

Much better than expected. Good, clear trail all the way up to the spring, and then just a couple of brushy areas beyond that. Easy going to Mineral Creek TH, with some water in the creek and some nice cypress thickets.

North Peak Trail ~4.5 miles

As expected, there's good water in the creek and solid flow from Mineral Spring. Love the first mile of this trail, and even the next two miles of grinding uphill isn't terrible. Climb was over before we knew it, then the pleasant traverse overlooking the upper part of City Creek. Last time I came through here, the last half mile or so was nearly impossible to follow; no such issue this time, it looks like someone has come through and cleared out some manzanita. As of this writing, North Peak trail has no routefinding required. I kinda like this trail.

AZT Trail - Mazatzal Divide ~3 miles

I misread the contour map and thought there were two climbs. There are actually three. Still, it's pleasant up there. Found a campsite with what seemed to be a hunter's abandoned gear. Some nice stuff, sleeping pad, a nearly full bottle of Crown Royal - fair game if anybody wants it, as far as I'm concerned. Not sure if he's planning on coming back up and retrieving it at some point, but I consider this to be litter.

Mazatzal Divide Trail ~6 miles

Vegetation is encroaching in some areas on the upper part, so running down didn't go as fast as hoped. The spring on the way down still had water. Ran into a couple on their way up, only people we saw all day.

Good day out there, I'd do this loop again.

	Mineral Spring	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	Good flow at the trail crossings.

	Pole Hollow Canyon	Light flow	Light flow
	Light flow in most areas.

Pole Hollow Spring

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SE 5395 Spring

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City Creek TH Payson, AZ

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Unlike my West Clear Creek hike last week that was disappointing, I was pleasantly surprised how nice a short evening hike was from the City Creek TH near the old Doll Baby Ranch outside of Payson. This hike exceeded my expectations: very scenic, great views from the ridge, a lot of wild flowers (I have never seen so many Sego Lily's anywhere in my years of treking around the west!), much greener than I expected, and the nice steady modest uphill grade made for a good even pace.

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Wildflowers Observation Moderate
Sego Lily's, Fairy Duster, etc etc etc

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Dec 09 2020

LJW

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North Peak Loop, AZ

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		LJW • Triplogs 266

Hiking	19.53 Miles	4,969 AEG

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I did this loop without the summit in May on a trip to The Park and Pete's Pond. Long wait through the endless summer to have another go. Assuming I couldn't make the drive to Mineral Creek TH, I built the summit into the loop from City Creek TH. Went counterclockwise for a more gradual ascent.

Started on the northern end of the Mazatzal Divide Trail. Best stretch the 3 miles of leveling off after the Red Hills jct 6 miles in. Good shape the whole way to The Park. Didn't take the extra time to saunter that way or down to Pete's Pond.

I found North Peak Trail to be in better shape on the upper end than it seemed in the spring. Had an easier time finding the grade, and there were more ribbons and cairns than I remembered. Still in rough shape. Eventually turned off the trail toward North Peak when it seemed like less of a bushwhack. Bumped back into the trail where it descends down the side of the mountain and left it once again.

I took the ridge from the trail to the saddle SW of North Peak. It was much clearer than expected and about a moderate bushwhack. It is quite steep, however. Small stands of pines survived on the saddle and higher on the ridge. Was about 12 miles to the summit the way I came. Tenth Mazzie summit and to me the views are as good as any in the range shy of Mazatzal Peak or the Four Peaks.

Went down the ridge to the NW. This route is more traveled, and I'd think the way most folks are getting up is using the NW ridge from Mineral Creek TH. Also not such a bad bushwhack with a little, avoidable scrambling.

North Peak Trail down to the trailhead is steep and slippery but all things considered is in good shape. A little water flowing in Mineral Creek.

Connected the two trailheads again with Pollow Hollow. Had an easier time than in May and followed more of the track than the creek. Travels through the longest bit of forest on the route. Got back as the clouds were rolling in and didn't see anyone on the day.

Mineral Spring

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	Pole Hollow Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	Only by Spring, no water on lower side

	Pole Hollow Spring	Dry	Dry
	Pools present, no spring flow

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Oct 09 2020

BiFrost

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AZT in a Day - Red Hills Trail, AZ

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We spent long weekend doing AZT in a Day event on the Mazatzal AZT. Our section was from The Park to Brush Spring about 7.5 miles. We started at Mineral Creek trailhead which is the most direct access to the The Park but didn’t’ start until about noon. Fortunately, it’s only about 4.5 miles to The Park from Mineral Creek so the late start was not an issue. However, being a short trail it’s very steep as it ascends to the Mazatzal Divide especially in the first 2 miles. There was decent water at Mineral Spring as we passed by and continued the climb. Towards the top before The Park the trail disappears in spots and is difficult to follow for the last ¾ mile to The Park. After fighting through the last brushy spots we reached The Park and setup camp. Once setup we headed over to Petes Pond for water but with the dry conditions we were not totally sure it would have water. Fortunately, it did have water which was a bit green from algae but it tasted fine. Headed back to camp and settled in for the night.

Next day for AZT in a Day event we just had to hike from The Park to Brush Spring about 7.5 miles. So we were not rushed and able to take our time. We are also AZT stewards for the section and took time to do minor trail work and document tree fall issues. Arrived at Brush Spring and checked for water which is near the camp and not where the Brush Spring sign is located. Apparently there used to be water there but it’s dried up and now the water is several hundred feet away from the sign. After filtering water we enjoyed the camp spot and the pleasant temps at Brush Spring.

Last day Sunday we had to hike from Brush Spring back out to Mineral Creek trailhead about 12 miles. On the way out we ran into Roger, Rob, and Jack doing Mazatzal transit backpack documenting trail conditions of AZT. We had lunch with them and shared notes on needed trail work and trail conditions in general. Great to see the guys and chat with them! I also did some extra off trail in search water for future trips and found a couple of small pools even in these dry conditions. It was a good sign and come spring time there should be decent pools. After that we continued heading back towards The Park where we took another break. From there it was out to Mineral Creek fighting the brushy section and then the big drop. The downhill is tedious but the steepest part is only 2 miles long so it goes relatively quick. Great weekend in the Mazatzal’s!!

	Brush Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	decent pools about 300 feet or so downstream of the sign

	Mineral Spring	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	decent flow along the trail. Several spots to access small pools

	Pete's Pond	1-25% full	1-25% full
	pool was very low and a bit green from algae but water tasted fine

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May 14 2020

LJW

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Park and Pond Loop, AZ

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		LJW • Triplogs 266

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Temps in the valley dipped for a day or two, so I wanted to try and summit North Peak. Generally head away from the Mazatzals come summer time, and didn't want to wait. Ended up passing on the summit and stuck with a loop that is enough on its own on a warm day.

The Northern Mazatzals are new to me, though I wouldn't have waited had I known that Doll Baby Ranch Road is paved almost the entire way to City Creek TH. There was some water in the road before the pavement, but it's passible in a sedan. Dirt gets rougher closer to City Creek TH.

Started around 6 with the Divide Trail first. It's a more gradual ascent compared to North Peak Trail. Perfect shape up to the Red Hills junction, after that still good but rocky and faint in parts. Minor deadfall. As with most trails, views get better higher up.

Ended up at The Park. Not what I had envisioned, but a nice place to spend a night. Not what it was pre-Willow, I figure. Northern Mazzies were pretty well scorched. Pete's Pond and the drainage to it still hold the end of Spring's water.

North Peak Trail from the Divide is difficult to follow for the first few hundred yards. Needs to be re-cut and cleared. Once descending it's pretty straightforward, though it's rocky, steep, and slippery. Maybe the best views of the day.

The off trail to the summit is a solid bushwhack. Didn't have the appetite for it. If I had seen the ridge from the East before, I would have gone for it. Once through the initial manzanita growth, it looks like it thins out. Regardless, it's over a 1000ft climb in about a mile.

Pole Hollow Canyon is pretty neat. Old two track takes you down and from there you walk in the rocky drainage no wider than a pair of outstretched arms. Deadfall and rock hopping briefly test patience. Widens out after the spring and is much more enjoyable. Young forest is growing in and is uplifting to see after traipsing the burnt crest of the Mazatzal Divide. Seems like Pole Hollow is mostly used to drive cattle from the ranches by City Creek th to southern pastures.

Ended around 1pm. I had parked on private land, stuck to the main road to keep it above board. Temps ranged from 40s to 80s. Didn't see anyone on the trip.

Wildflowers Observation Substantial
Heavy on divide, solid in Pole Hollow, light on North Peak

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Mar 31 2018

The_Eagle

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City Creek TH to Pete's Pond loop, AZ

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Driving in, I noticed the development at the end of the pavement, where the two covered arenas are, were up for sale.
HAZ retreat? https://www.landwatch.com/Gila-County-A ... /326742102

First time hiking from the City Creek TH. Guess I never realized this is where the northern terminus for the MDT #23 was. The trail is a steady climb for 6 miles but in great shape. Great views all around. At the top, back on the AZT again after passing the Red Hills trail. We rollercoastered southbound on the MDT to the intersection with North Peak Trail. We passed and talked to one AZT'er going Northbound from San Diego. His shoes did not look like he was going to make it much farther, but he was not concerned.

My goal for the day was hitting some new trails, as well as a stop at Pete's Pond. We went off trail westish at the the North Peak Trail junction, and made our way to Petes Pond. (Who is this Pete Guy?) . Petes was a great place for lunch as long as you don't mind being photographed by the two game cameras that are there.

After Lunch we headed down the North Peak trail. As others have noted (which I read after the hike) the western .5 - .75 miles of this trail are hard to follow in spots. a GPS track is great to keep you in the vicinity of the "Trail". Once you drop off the top, the route finding is a piece of cake. It is a steep loose bugger in many spots.

just North of the Mineral Creel TH we followed an old two track/creek bed in Pole Hollow Canyon. This was the gem of the day.

It's obvious is gets traffic from both game and humans and at one time was cleared, cutting out some of the bends in the canyon.
All of the human sign was within 1-2 miles of the Northern TH.

Great weather on the day.

Fauna on the day
1 Elk, 1 Deer, 4 javelina, 1 squirrel, 1 Teva.

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[ checklist ] Mineral Spring North Peak Pete's Pond

Wildflowers Observation Isolated

	Mineral Spring	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Creek flowing below spring

	Pete's Pond	51-75% full	51-75% full
	Plenty to filter from

	Pole Hollow Spring	Dry	Dry
	Dry in creek. Too thick to check out spring area

	SE 5395 Spring	Dry	Dry
	Nothing in the area of the trail

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Mar 31 2018

joebartels

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MDT - Pete's Pond - Pole Hollow Canyon Loop, AZ

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		joebartels • Triplogs 5,894

Hiking	17.92 Miles	4,208 AEG

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Mazatzal Divide - AZT #23
Well maintained. Glad it exists. My least favorite segment of #23. Nice chat w/~28yo NOBO thru hiker named something like trailpants, transplant or transcript. From San Diego, started Mar 9th, previously completed PCT.

Pete's Pond
We crawled 4.5 hrs to the pond. Great lunch break spot!

The Park
Nice to return to one of the few places I've camped.

North Peak Trail #24
Good luck finding the western 0.5 mi end. Great views heading East. That said I'd rather only hike this trail west due to loose footing on steep grades.

Pole Hollow Canyon
Pleasant surprise. The most continuously interesting hiking segment of the day. Much easier to negotiate the terrain than anticipated. Likely most enjoyable descending. Minor route finding and lack of maintained trail will keep the masses out.

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Dichelostemma capitatum, strawberry hedgehog, two white petal onion varieties

	Mineral Spring	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	Nice clean flow

	Pete's Pond	51-75% full	51-75% full
	approx 2 feet below capacity, clean

	Pole Hollow Canyon	Dry	Dry

	Pole Hollow Spring	Dry	Dry
	Did not go off trail to spring. Creek is dry. 0.2 miles up creek was plenty to filter, though loaded with algae

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Mar 26 2017

jacobemerick

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City Creek Loop, AZ

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		jacobemerick • Triplogs 232

Hiking	18.41 Miles	4,297 AEG

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Snuck out from fatherly duties to knock out a quick loop in the Mazzies. Yay for ditching responsibilities!

Pole Hollow Canyon
As far as connectors go, this one is solid. An old two-track runs along the length of the wash, so there's always the choice between walking the sandy/gravel creekbed or overgrown road. There is plenty of deadfall so I switched between the two frequently. Not sure how much foot traffic this gets, as I didn't see any recent tracks yet there were a few paths trod around some of deadfall. Anyways, water was flowing from the spring. Once I passed that things dried up.

North Peak Trail
Is way more enjoyable than I thought it would be. The first mile played in and out of Mineral Creek and then the climb hit. Steep enough to get the heart pounding, short enough to not outlive its welcome. And big views the whole way - not quite Rock Creek level, but close. Above the climb has been recently trimmed, sometime in the last year or so, and I didn't have any difficulty until the camp on 6178. Manzanita and deadfall took over the path, and while someone had tied pretty pink markers along the path and even knocked down a few bushes, I still lost it and wandered aimlessly in the wash for a bit. Had to use GPS to get back and make it to The Park relatively unbloodied.

Pete's Pond makes for a great lunch spot. Although it has a game cam now, so I guess no midnight skinny dipping for the campers.

Mazatzal Divide Trail
Bumped into the first (and only other) hiker of the day near Wet Bottom on my way out of Pete's Pond. Then it was solo hiking up a new stretch of the Mazzie Divide for me, up and down and up and down. It was a fun, if somewhat tiring, journey to and over Knob Mountain. Every creek crossing was flowing which was pretty cool. Oh, and that cluster of pines just south of Knob was clutch. The descent after AZT fork was gentle enough to only tweak my knee a half-dozen times and long enough to get a bit tedious near the end.

On an aside, used a new piece of equipment this hike: inReach Explorer+. Wife and I have been discussing me using a satellite communicator after an incident in early '16, and with some of my planned outings this year she finally put the foot down. It performed well for communication, so-so as a GPS tracker. Had hooked Route Scout as a backup and it worked admirably. As it usually does.

Mazatzal Miles: 59/274 (21.5%)

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Medium flow

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76-100% full

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Mar 09 2017

markthurman53

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City Creek Trail Mazatzal Divide South, AZ

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A lot of work to do 3.3 miles of the Arizona Trail, But that has been true for all the portions of Arizona Trail in the Mazatzal Mountains (If you are just doing day hikes). Well worth the hike, this is the second time doing the City Creek Trail and I still found it worth it. This time the water was plentiful along both the City Creek and the Arizona Trail. The City Creek Trail is well maintained and easy hiking (for an uphill climb) because there are not a lot of rocky steps, trail is pretty smooth.

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Feb 11 2017

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This loop had been on our to do list for a while. With all the snow we had to wait for some to melt but the time seemed right to give it a try. Chance of rain but nothing significant and as it turned out not a drop fell on the whole hike. We started from City Creek TH and headed up Mazatzal Divide Trail to the Arizona Trail junction. First time on this part of the Divide trail and it’s in really great shape so we got spoiled making our way up towards The Park. Took short break at AZT junction and then headed for the Park where we saw a few patches of snow but nothing significant.
Once at the Park we headed for Petes Pond initially down Wet Bottom Creek but had to bail on the drainage because it was running too fast but really cool to see all that water. Had lunch at Petes Pond which was also running strong and tons of water everywhere. After lunch we took a more direct route back to the Park avoiding the drainage back to the North Peak Trail junction. The North Peak Trail was as advertised overgrown and difficult to follow in the first 2 miles and most patches of snow we saw all day. Once the trail starts the big drop down to Mineral Creek TH it’s easy to follow but very steep.
At Mineral Creek TH we headed down Pole Hollow Canyon on an old road track route that @toddak had done previously. Aside from a few sections where the road disappears most of the way we were able to follow the road two track and make decent time back to City Creek TH just at dark.

	City Creek	Heavy flow	Heavy flow
	heavy snow runoff from North Peak

	Pete's Pond	76-100% full	76-100% full
	completely full and the drainage had heavy flow

Light flow

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Mar 04 2016

toddak

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Pretty nice loop from City Creek trailhead - up MD #23 to The Park, down North Peak to Mineral Creek trailhead, then back north down Pole Hollow Canyon to the start. The climb up MD #23 is excellent, with good trail and big views (but zero shade, start early). Unfortunately the first two miles of North Peak trail leaving The Park are sheer misery - faint, heavily overgrown, downed trees, etc. Thankfully some kind soul has hung literally hundreds of red ribbons to mark the way through the manzanita jungle. Things improve greatly as you head down the ridge, but it will take a major effort to restore the upper section. Pole Hollow Canyon works nicely to connect the trailheads - generally easy hiking either down in the drainage or up on the bench on either side. Also did a side out-and-back from The Park south to Hopi Spring.

Water along the trails:
Plenty of flow in City Creek at the trailhead.
Light flow in Wet Bottom Creek just south of The Park.
Trickles from Hopi Spring.
Light flow in Mineral Creek below the spring.

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Nov 30 2014

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		nonot • Triplogs 514

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Threw together a last minute backpacking loop - did this because Chumley/FOTG's triplogs were the only recent backpacking trips close enough to town.

The park is nice, Pete's pond is cloudy/silty, but a good source. Surprisingly it was about 45-50 degrees at sundown but warmed up to about 60 at midnight to 6AM and dropped back down to 45 around sunrise.

Finished the MDT by trekking out to the Rock creek Trail/Hopi Spring. Some of these areas of the Mazatzals are actually recovering from the fire, but are still decades away from full restoration. Back to camp to pack up and head down the North Peak trail. The first two miles of this trail are pretty terrible. The last 2 to the trailhead are more reasonable. Thanks to Hank and Chris for posting the GPS as I needed it at one point where the trail does the most illogical detour. Neither of the trails has much repeat value.

The mineral creek area is nice but the creek dried up before reaching the trailhead. Favorite part of the trip was seeing a herd of javelina while walking the shortcut back to the car.

City Creek

Dry

	Hopi Spring	Dry	Dry
	I did not see any water in the vicinity of the spring.

	Mineral Spring	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	It is flowing nicely near the spring but dries up quickly flowing down the canyon.

	Pete's Pond	76-100% full	76-100% full
	The pool is silty and clogs filters but tastes fine.

	Pole Hollow Canyon	Pools to trickle	Pools to trickle
	There are some pools in this canyon, a few of which look to be of good quality.

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Apr 27 2012

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		mazatzal • Triplogs 1,347

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Friday forecast was good so I took the day off. I went up Maz Divide to Knob Mtn and off trail along the ridge to Red Hills trail. This is the old route shown on old topos, saw a few cairns. I found an old firefighter rake and an old campsite. From here I took Red Hills back up and then down MDT. The area is recovering a bit. Saw a buzzworm, a deer and a gopher snake.

Wildflowers Observation Moderate

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Aug 20 2011

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My Buddy Drew and I went up today and hiked this one. Great hike but very overgrown in places which caused for the shins to get a little chopped up. The views on this trail are so amazing for so much of the way! That's that good news, the bad news is there isn't much tree coverage to protect from the sun.

It started out a bit warm but got better as the day went on due to the cloud cover. We were hoping for a little rain but it never made it to us. Looked like the Rim got wet however.

The "Park" area towards the end had a bunch of purple and yellow flowers. There were several bumble bees and butterflies in the area. Kind of cool.

Drew drove and I left my camera behind so no photos from me this trip. Sorry.

Wildflowers Observation Light

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Day 1: City Creek TH to Fuller Seep. Jim found a nice axe on the trail and carried it for the next 4 days.

Day 2: Fuller seep to lower Wet Bottom Creek crossing (see profile photo and thank you Jim or wading in and rescuing my hiking socks that had blown into the creek :sl:

) and then back track to Midnight trail and down to Upper Wet Bottom Creek crossing.

Day 3: Upper WBC to The Park. This stretch of Midnight trail is really cool.

Day 4: Down North Peak trail and along Pole Hollow to City Creek TH.

We were lucky enough to do this incredible loop before the Willow Fire by just 3 months.

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Apr 27 1997

mazatzal

Routes 36
Photos 2,658
Triplogs 1,347

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Joined Jul 28 2004
Scottsdale, AZ

Payson, AZ

Hiking		Apr 27 1997
		mazatzal • Triplogs 1,347

Hiking	13.00 Miles	2,800 AEG

Hiking	13.00 Miles
	2,800 ft AEG

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