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Salida / Sevenmile / Ranch loop, AZ
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| Run/Jog | 14.81 Miles |
1,732 AEG |
| | Run/Jog | 14.81 Miles | 3 Hrs 4 Mns | | 4.83 mph |
| 1,732 ft AEG | | | | |
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| no partners | | Kind of a last minute plan, decided after I woke up to head to Prescott. Had the Salida Gulch area on the mind, and saw some maps suggesting Sevenmile Gulch could potentially allow for a bigger loop. Didn't really have a plan or do any research, though. Got to Ranch TH and jogged down to Lynx Ruin TH, then followed the road to Salida Gulch TH. Followed the trail up the bottom of the drainage to the spring, then found the junction for the connector down to Lynx Lake. Didn't know if this was an actual trail or just a line on a map, but since it was marked, I took it.
Got to the lake, now headed back toward the car, and decided I have enough energy for a diversion, so I headed through the culvert under Walker Rd to Sevenmile TH, and headed up. Didn't know this trail system allows motor vehicles, but only saw two motorcycles on trail so NBD. Lots of motorcycle trails heading off every which way, so didn't know if I was on the right trail, but figured eventually I'd hit the circle trail if I kept heading west. After a steep climb out of the gulch, hit a T junction, and headed north. After about a half mile I came upon the Ranch Trail connector.
Ranch Trail was a lot longer than I would've liked, but at this point I at least knew that this would bring me back to the TH, so that was nice.
Weather was good, just a few sprinkles while on the ranch/circle trail, and about as temperate as one can expect this time of year. |
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One exception we took to the directions were off of the 9263 trail instead of trail #93 it turned into 95 so we took that down to 94. I don't know if this was a section added after the original description or we went off on the wrong one but it was getting warm and after carrying my 9 month old in his hiking carrier we were getting a little worn. We missed seeing the petroglyphs, maybe we'll take the short hike next time to go after those.
