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| Canyoneering | 3.84 Miles |
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| | Canyoneering | 3.84 Miles | 1 Hour 57 Mns | | 1.97 mph |
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| | Canyon Hiking - Non-technical; no rope; easy scrambling; occasional hand use | | A - Dry or little water; shallow or avoidable water; no wet/dry suit | | I - Short 1-2 hours |
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| no partners | | After hiking Sugarloaf, came back and picked up my wife for the next hike of the day. (Some people go to Laughlin to play the slots  .....what are they thinking  ). This was the one trail that my wife had picked out that she wanted to try. This is an easy drive from Laughlin (15-20 minutes), easily accessible by all cars. Got there around 8am. Had the our choice of parking at the TH. First ones there. There's enough parking for 15+ cars. There are also bathrooms, but no running water. Short walk to the glyphs. About .25 miles. You can walk in the wash....very sandy, or take the south berm in to avoid the "beach effect." They do caution hikers not to touch or climb on the petroglyphs and there are some signed areas of revegetation....so Respect! That being said this is off trail hikers dream!! The glyphs are amazing, but the area around it, is just as amazing! We pretty much stayed on "trail" (a user trail) with the hope of getting into the spring. Just after the glyphs, we came across a seep that had water flowing for about 10 ft above ground before disappearing. Shortly after that, (about .5 miles in from the TH) came across another, slightly larger flow of water sandwiched between two giant boulders. We opted for the southern side and had, depending on who you asked (a neat little scramble to the top, or a terrifying climb where no person belonged). My wife, who had made it the top was a little freaked out by our position "wanted to get down." So we climb/slid back down to the canyon base. Upon reaching the base she tells me that she is still interested in venturing on. So we then CLIMBED UP the northern boulder. Mind you, the northern boulder was just as high off the ground as the other one, and our former position was such that we could have wrapped around an outcropping and been back on trail without any precarious boulder decent. On the other side of the boulders, we came to where this trail gets it name....grapevines! The grapevines Patchy as we continued up the canyon. But when they were present, they filled the canyon. When this happened, there were quite a few braiding paths that wound their way through them. So it wasn't that bad negotiating them. Unfortunately, we only made it in about 1.5 miles before we decided it was time to turn around. But we had a great time and my wife was a real trooper for going outside her comfort zone in hiking into the canyon. Views were incredible. Weather was just perfect. Saw a handful of lizards and chipmunks and also spooked a an owl from a thicket. |
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