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Mar 28 2015

CannondaleKid

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75 male

Joined May 04 2004
Mesa, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Hiking		Mar 28 2015
		CannondaleKid • Triplogs 2,411

Hiking	8.40 Miles	2,480 AEG

Hiking	8.40 Miles	5 Hrs 16 Mns		1.67 mph
	2,480 ft AEG	15 Mns Break	25 LBS Pack

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trixiec

Lots of wandering on this hike. Making good use of HAZ Tracks as well as taking photos and videos with the Galaxy S5.

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Aug 24 2014

The_Eagle

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69 male

Joined Jan 20 2009
Far NE Phoenix,

Lucky Strike#144 w/Side Trips, AZ

Hiking		Aug 24 2014
		The_Eagle • Triplogs 2,760

Hiking	12.40 Miles	3,778 AEG

Hiking	12.40 Miles	6 Hrs 47 Mns		2.18 mph
	3,778 ft AEG	1 Hour 5 Mns Break	14 LBS Pack

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	joebartels	wallyfrack

Fun journey out to the Sierra Anchas. Finished up the Lucky Strike trail and did a bit of 'splorin'. Weather was toasty at the bottom, but some clouds moved in and the wind picked up, to make it comfortable hiking up after the first mile or so.

The trail is a little overgrown in spots mainly in the lower 1/3, but not bad. Followed GHopper's / Oregon Hikers track for some side trips to mines, springs, and mining relics. The two trips to the south of Lucky Strike Trail were getting overgrown. The one to the north, just mainly has some deadfall. The seeing the old Mining Compressor contraption was worth the side trip. Next visit with more time and long pants / shirt, I'd like to try the Oregon Hiker loop to see some more stuff. http://hikearizona.com/gps=27050

It's been awhile, but great hiking with Alex (tap, tap) and Chris (The Tank) again. Joe and Wally always enjoyable to hike with. Thanks for driving Chris....

Video from up top :next:

http://youtu.be/YsRWeXsYCDw

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[ checklist ] HAZ - Selfie HAZ Rides Mine Shaft Mining Equipment Trail Signs and Markings

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[ checklist ] Cherry Creek Sierra Ancha Wilderness

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	Mining Camp Spring - Sierra Ancha Wild	Gallon per minute	Gallon per minute
	Lots of filterable water in the wooden Spring box

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May 20 2013

Oregon_Hiker

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79 male

Joined Dec 07 2010
Phoenix, AZ

Lucky Strike - Metate Mine Trail Loop, AZ

Hiking		May 20 2013
		Oregon_Hiker • Triplogs 626

Hiking	4.10 Miles	1,270 AEG

Hiking	4.10 Miles
	1,270 ft AEG

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Grasshopper

It was the last day of a 6 day camping/hiking trip to the Sierra Ancha. I had been camped near the Billy Lawrence trail head for 5 nights with Grasshopper. Monday morning Grasshopper was occupied packing up his camp so I decided to search for the old Metate mining trail which was supposed to traverse the hillside at approximately 6200' elevation from below my campsite south east over to the end of the Lucky Strike mine spur road off of the Lucky Strike #144 trail. I had found the starting point for this old pack trail about 0.3 miles north of the BL trailhead on a previous visit to this area. I had a rough drawing of the trail and locations of Metate adits along the trail from the 1985 Bureau of Mines Mineral Investigation of the Sierra Ancha Wilderness. The information in this report is actually from a 1978 survey of the mines.

First, a little history of the mines I've gleaned from the 1985 report and talking to an old timer who walked into my camp this week to say hello. There were three sets of mining claims made for asbestos deposits along the west side of Cherry Creek Canyon below the Billy Lawrence Trailhead. These were the Pueblo Group first claimed in 1923-24, the Lucky Strike group first claimed in 1917, and the Metate Group first claimed in 1943. The Pueblo and LS mines actively produced asbestos ore while the Metate Group was a series of 10 adits (mine shafts) exploring the potential for asbestos production but never actually produced any significant quantities. It's not clear from the reports I could find how long these mines were active. The report mentions ore being produced from the Lucky Strike and Pueblo mines from the mid 1920s through the 1940s. The Metate adits and tram date from the early 1950s. The old timer who walked in to my camp one day said he had driven his early 1970s FJ Land Cruiser down the mining road which is now the Lucky Strike #144 trail as far as the old mining campsite in the late 1970s. He said mining activity was no longer in progress at that time. Some of the buildings at the campsite still existed but were later burned down by the Forest Service. The camp consisted of bunk houses on the south side of the road and a mine managers house on the north side of the road. The Metate mining company had constructed a 1000 ft tramway down the hill side from a point near my campsite down to the old pack trail near one of their adits. Steel rods sunk into sandstone slabs and scattered asbestos ore at the top of the cliff mark the location of the tram. This was confirmed by my visitor. Remains of what were probably old mining shacks belonging to the Metate folks are scattered in the forest along the rim near the site of the tram.

I made quick progress on the beginning of the hike along the first 0.4 miles of the old trail because I'd been on this section before. Conveniently someone had preceded me down the trail within the last year with a pair of loppers and cleared out some of the brush. The first Metate Adit is near the upper end of the drainage for the Billy Lawrence creek. The trail gets cliffed out just past the adit and I had to scramble uphill a short distance to another trail which leads into the bottom of the drainage and out the other side. There are remains of an old mining campsite tucked in at the base of a cliff above this first adit. I followed the old trail which was at times easy to follow and at other times got lost in heavy overgrowth. When ever I lost the trail I looked for cut branches to lead the way. The guy with the loppers had done a good job of following the old trail but I lost his track near the end.

Several adits are supposed to be strung out along this trail according to the drawing from the 1985 mining report. However it was soon obvious that the trail was above the row of cliffs with the layer of white and gray Mescal Limestone which contains the asbestos veins. There were some areas of mild exposure where the trail traversed steep loose dirt and rock hillsides above a 20 to 40 foot high cliff. My trekking poles helped out here but got in the way when crawling through brush and over boulders. As the trail neared the end of the Lucky Strike mine road I could see an old roadbed along the side of the cliff below me and was able to hike down to it in the bottom of a wash with no exposure. Backtracking to the north along this old road bed I found Metate Adits 7, 8, 9 and 10. All the adits were open and had old bed spring frames and other signs of habitation littering the floors. One adit even had the remains of a door at the entrance made from corrugated metal roofing. The road bed ended at adit 7 and from there a foot path on a narrow ledge led north along the cliff to at least 3 more adits. The ledge was only about 1 to 2 feet wide and looked like it was crumbling away in places so I didn't venture any further. I had reached my turn around time and was faced with the decision to either go back the way I had come (1 mile) or make a loop out of the hike taking the Lucky Strike mine spur road to trail #144 which would take me up to the Billy Lawrence Trailhead and my camp (3 miles). I opted for the 3 mile return loop which Grasshopper and I had hiked 3 days earlier.

I was moving at a fairly good pace along the LS spur nearing the location of an old Ingersoll Rand compressor, a fairly large piece of equipment with dark rusty brown steel wheels. I spotted a large roundish shape the same color as the old rusty wheels on the compressor on the trail ahead. My first thought was that it was an old fuel barrel laying in the road and wondered why Grasshopper and I hadn't seen it 3 days ago. Suddenly the back of a bear's head raised up from the round shape and turned to look at me. I had been looking at the large rump of a bear. He took one look at me and bounded down the road before I could get my camera out. That made two firsts for me on this 6 day trip: my first unplanned encounter with a HAZ member (JTaylor) who drove into my camp on Friday afternoon and my first sighting of a bear in Arizona. That made for a great ending to my 6 day trip. I got back to camp by 1:00 pm giving me plenty of time to drive home in time for dinner.

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[ checklist ] Billy Lawrence Canyon Elephant Rock McFadden Horse Mountain Metate Mine

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May 17 2013

Oregon_Hiker

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79 male

Joined Dec 07 2010
Phoenix, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Hiking		May 17 2013
		Oregon_Hiker • Triplogs 626

Hiking	7.30 Miles	2,480 AEG

Hiking	7.30 Miles
	2,480 ft AEG

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Grasshopper

This was the second day hike for Grasshopper and I on our 6 day car camping trip to the Sierra Ancha. We had both been on the Lucky Strike TR 144 before but had never looked for the old Lucky Strike and Pueblo asbestos mines which were accessed by the old mining road which is now TR 144. These old mines date back to the first half of the 20th century. It was a productive day with finding a number of old mining adits and two massive old compressors used to power the pneumatic drills and jack hammers used in the mines. We also found springs (most likely perennial) used to supply the mines and a mining camp with water and the remains of the old mining camp. See the hike description for historical background info and more detail on our findings.

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[ checklist ] Elephant Rock Lucky Strike Mine Mining Camp Spring - Sierra Ancha Wild Pueblo Canyon

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May 17 2013

Grasshopper

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79 male

Joined Dec 28 2006
Scottsdale, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Lucky Strike and Pueblo Mines

Globe, AZ

Hiking		May 17 2013
		Grasshopper • Triplogs 578

Hiking	7.30 Miles	2,482 AEG

Hiking	7.30 Miles	4 Hrs 40 Mns	4.38 mph
	2,482 ft AEG	3 Hrs Break

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Oregon_Hiker

A very enjoyable and rewarding exploration hiking day in our Sierra Ancha Wilderness prowling for new to me, historic Asbestos Mining stuff.

My geocoded, captioned picset and posted GPS Route with all "key" way points shows and confirms our successful day out

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[ checklist ] Hinton Creek Lucky Strike Mine Mining Camp Spring - Sierra Ancha Wild Pueblo Mine

	Mining Camp Spring - Sierra Ancha Wild	Quart per minute	Quart per minute
	Appears to be perennial with at least a quart + flow per minute;

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Mar 16 2013

mazatzal

Routes 36
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67 male

Joined Jul 28 2004
Scottsdale, AZ

Sierra Ancha, AZ

Hiking		Mar 16 2013
		mazatzal • Triplogs 1,347

Hiking	23.00 Miles	5,100 AEG

Hiking	23.00 Miles
	5,100 ft AEG

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Moody Point Trail #140

Rim Trail #139 Loop

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Camp Grasshopper - Sierra Ancha FR235-C/Site#1

Camp Grasshopper - Sierra Ancha FR235-C/Site#2

Cherry Creek Road FR 203

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jhelfers

Spent 3 days in Sierra Ancha and had a great time. There was tons of water everywhere and quite a bit of snow left over in places. Reynolds was really flowing and Workman Falls were the biggest I've seen them.

Day 1: We set up camp along FR 235 and then take a trip out to the end of 235 and explore a couple of old mining areas. Unfortunately, we didn't make it all the way down to Pueblo and Lucky Strike mines. Along a separate trail in the area we found a memorial to John Dalton Jr.

Day 2: Did the loop with 410 to Reynolds Creek Trail to Center Mtn trail, over Center Mtn and back down 235. I'm pretty sure I've worked out where the 'secret ruin' is so I'll have to come back and check that out. Near the top of the climb up Center Mtn the views into Cherry Creek and east to the rez really open up. Very nice.

Day 3: Aztec loop: Abbey's way up, down the road to Moody and Rim trail back. Had a few spots on Abbey's and the road where we were postholing in 2-3' drifts :sweat:

We saw no wildlife until the drive home when we spotted one coyote and then lower down one of the group saw 4 javelina. Stopped at Los Hermanos on the way back

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