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| Hiking | 9.40 Miles |
1,000 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.40 Miles | 7 Hrs | | 1.34 mph |
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| partners | | This trail started out faint and hard to follow and got worse from there. This starts at the same spot as the Denton Trail of off FR421 and heads to the north along Sycamore Creek. The trail faded in and out in spots, not being much easier to walk along than as opposed to bushwhacking due to the loose rocks, loose soil, overgrowth, and occaisonal catclaw bush growing right in the middle of the trail (as well as one 5' saguaro). At the 2 mile mark, the "trail" ascended over a ridge, only to immediately descend back into the creek, at which point we decided it was easier to rock hop along the stream than to try to follow a trail that degraded into catclaw every 10 yards. Once the mapping told us that the trail left the stream bed, we tried to follow it, only to find that no trace of any trail existed, other than randomly placed cairns that seemed to serve more as suggestion than direction. We decided to abort at about the 4 mile mark going in since it appeared that we were maybe just halfway to the endpoint. I may decide to finish this hike one day from the north terminus off FR422 via FR143. Maybe.
After getting back to the car, we noticed fire ants directly adjacent to where I parked, making packing up a challenge. After driving the 2.5 miles of FR421 to SR188, we got the last of the 3 gates along the road. As Wally opened the door of my car, he yelled a bit. I thought maybe I stopped too close to some more catclaw. I asked what was wrong. "There's a diamondback next to your car." After jumping out of the car, Wally was able to open the final gate and we were out of that area, perhaps for the next several decades. |
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My only gripe is that 2 guys on ATV’s flagged me down to ask for directions. They didn’t have any idea where they were. They only had a book of ATV trails, which had a 4 x 8 map of the 4 peaks area. I told them where they were at and they asked how to get to the parking lot. I was like ‘which parking lot?” They replied the one off of the 4-peaks road. We just drove in and saw a parking lot. I told them how to get back to FR143 and hoped that they would remember which way to go. If you’re going out ATVing you should at least have a good map / GPS. 
