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San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094 - 1 member in 4 triplogs has rated this an average 4 ( 1 to 5 best )
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Aug 25 2016
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75 male
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 Cloudcroft, NM
San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094Southeast, NM
San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094
Southeast, NM
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imike • Triplogs 2,467
Canyoneering9.00 Miles 2,800 AEG
Canyoneering9.00 Miles
2,800 ft AEG
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longer, harder day. Canyon was exceptional! we are going back in October to check out more of it. This was all below West side road...down to the blocking waterfall... Will along to try to get Ross and I into trouble on the cliff climb! Ratterlsnake... Barbery Sheep...
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Aug 17 2015
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 Cloudcroft, NM
San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094Southeast, NM
San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094
Southeast, NM
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imike • Triplogs 2,467
Canyoneering6.50 Miles 1,400 AEG
Canyoneering6.50 Miles
1,400 ft AEG
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Finally followed this once official route all the way up to its end... it terminates roughly up in San Andreas north. At one time someone put in a lot of work on this trail, probably to move cattle to the various springs in the canyon. They still pipe water out of the canyon; the source must be one of the more reliable in the area.

Hackberry Spring had a pool of water... surrounded by numerous dead or dying Hackberry trees...

Climbing down and out of the North Canyon I managed to break a rib using my body for a friction descent down a crack... not the first time to break a rib, but the first time I heard it snap... interesting!

We looped down and out of the north cut and up into the south canyon, or real target for the day. Alas, I decided to turn around early, so we will have to return to check out the upper dryfall, perhaps combining it with the very inviting Holder Ridge Cut... possibly ascending that shallow canyon then traverse the base of the upper cliffs over to the south dryfall? Guess we'll wait for cooler weather... the list of lower canyon cool weather exploratories is getting long!

I forgot to pack my camera; missed a variety of great shots... hopefully it will be as good when we go back in next month.

Mary's most demanding canyon hike to date... she did great!
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Jun 01 2014
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Arrow Canyon, NM 
Arrow Canyon, NM
 
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imike • Triplogs 2,467
Hiking8.00 Miles 1,000 AEG
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Kicking this month off with an under impressive bit of AEG... but we enjoyed exploring a variety of canyons off of the west side of Burleson Ridge.

Meeting at the Oro Vista fire department, then reorienting over to Linda's house... we hiked up into the Arrow canyon drainage. There are 4-5 options... we checked out the lower reaches of just a couple. We need to head back up fo a few days of exploring to the top o each of those cuts.

Back at Linda's for fresh raisin bread and iced tea, we split off from Dick, Nelly and Elaina...and Linda... and drove south exploring the old 4x4 routes to the series of canyons: Lead... then Muleshoe and finally, San Andreas. We did minor hikes in each, but at San Andreas I noticed (finally!) the entry to the old trail that is on the topo maps: #2094. That proved to be an exception trail! While it does not do anything more than dump you back into the canyon proper below the fork splits, at one time it was given enough focus that even now it remains an exceptional bit of hiking.

Note: it takes off to the north, steeply climbing, from the loop turn around on the jeep road, right before that road drops down onto the lower bench on the side of the canyon bottom.

Ross provided the 4x4 truck for the after hike hikes. A good day out!
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Nov 12 2012
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San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094Southeast, NM
San Andreas Canyon - Lower #2094
Southeast, NM
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imike • Triplogs 2,467
Canyoneering11.40 Miles 2,900 AEG
Canyoneering11.40 Miles   8 Hrs      1.95 mph
2,900 ft AEG   2 Hrs   10 Mns Break
Basic Canyoneering - Scrambling; easy climbing/downclimbing; frequent hand use; rope recommended; easy exit
A - Dry or little water; shallow or avoidable water; no wet/dry suit
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Odd day. Bit of a later start waiting for a no-show hiking partner... then some driving around deciding on which hike to do. Ended up hiking cross country checking out the Sacramento Escarpment Recreation area (BLM)... then finally headed up San Andreas Canyon. First of the area canyons that shows a volume of local use, but as always, when it gets a bit hard, the footprints fall by the wayside. It was a slow trudge... energy was off. Climbing was shaky. My initial impression of the canyon was "less than"... but, that changed as I hiked out and took time to soak in the settings.

I only had nine hours of sunlight for the hike. I'd normally break that up to 6 up/ 3 down. With the more difficult routing in this canyon I though early on about doing 5 up then 4 down. After drinking my entire gallon of fluid by midday, I decided on an even split: 4.5 up... 4.5 out. Turned out I did not need it... I was out of the canyon by 3:30pm... back to the truck by 4pm. Now,. I have to go back up in there to get the pics of the last half mile below the falls. I might just hit it from above... drop in by rope?

Odd Canyon... not really hard... not really easy. I need to re-experience it when my energy is good. Was nice to be back out exploring solo...

time for a rest day!

water 1 out of 5water 2 out of 5water less than maxwater less than max Cottonwood Spring Quart per minute Quart per minute
Three pools of water... judging by the huge trees, must be steady supply given how dry this year is!

water 1 out of 5water less than maxwater less than maxwater less than max Dripping Spring Dripping Dripping
just some seep down the rock...
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average hiking speed 1.95 mph

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