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Point Trail to Sundance Canyon, AZ
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| Canyoneering | 3.64 Miles |
833 AEG |
| | Canyoneering | 3.64 Miles | 4 Hrs 32 Mns | | 1.01 mph |
| 833 ft AEG | 55 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | By sheer coincidence, it's been exactly 3 years since I last took my kids on this hike. We got started a little before 9:30 and headed down Point Trail. Steep, slippery, dusty, etc. Nobody fell, so that was good. Don't wear light colored clothes on this one, because the dirt along here is like ash, and you will be a mess in no time. Took a break when we reached the creek, then headed upstream to Sundance Canyon. We followed the path in places, other times it was easiest in the water, which most mostly between knee to hip deep on me when carefully looking for the shallowest places. Chest deep at times on the kids. The pool at the entrance to Sundance was deep, as always. I found a spot where it was only neck deep on me, so I waded across with the 8yr old on my back. Despite my telling him several times to hold my shoulders, he chose to wrap his arms tightly around my neck. That was fun. The 10yr old swam across no problem. Spent a few minutes looking around, then started heading back out. Saw one group of people heading in while we were climbing back out-friendly group of scouts from Vegas. We finished up just as it started sprinkling. Not much rain, just enough to mess up the dust on my vehicle. The road in off Hwy 260, 144-  149- 142- 142E is in good shape (sedan friendly when dry) except for the last little bit of 142E. |
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The canyon was beautiful, but it was a mixture of extremely slippery creek walking, or thorny bushwhacking on the sides. We each fell countless times, and were bleeding as well. There were a few swimmers along the way that would have been difficult to bypass, but we didn’t need to inflate floaties. It was slow moving down the canyon and the bushes just got thicker as we continued on. 
We finally made it to our exit point at Calloway which was super steep switchbacks, but a defined path at least. This was pretty brutal for a day hike given how slow moving it was, but it was definitely a beautiful one! Definitely make sure to have a lot of fuel for this one since it’s so grueling. Glad to have friends up for any adventure! Camped near point TH and celebrated 
). Did some fishing and hung out on the beach the rest of the day. Hiking over to the point trail in the AM, we passed more people than we saw all the previous day. Every camp spot was taken. Literally 150 people passed us going in and out of the canyon. It was quite the show watching people change their shoes and freak out about getting wet. Hiked up a bit past Bear Canyon and made camp for the night after an exhausting 3 miles. 
this spot sure is beautiful, but a tad on the crowded side for my liking. Would definitely go back to explore bear canyon though!
. I can’t wait to get back here , all my other summer hikes are now on hold until I spend more time down here. Couldn’t figure out how to post photos, maybe next time
