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| | Hiking | 1.00 Miles | 45 Mns | | 1.33 mph |
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| no partners | | | There's really nothing special about Wildcat Hill. It's just another cinder cone which are already ubiquitous in northern Arizona. However, there happened to be a geocache at the summit which I wanted to find. A lonely one too, with the last log being in 2020. Found a road in, that looped around to the west side. This was the ideal approach as the slope was more forgiving. Drove to the base, which was as far as I could drive in my 2wd Tacoma pickup and started up. The road continues up till you reach the southern tip, so if you have vehicle with 4wd and a short wheel base, you can drive up another 200' elevation wise. It looks like the road might've continued to the summit, but rocks and fallen trees block whatever might've been left. Continuing up to the summit wasn't hard at all and took less than 15 minutes from vehicle to the top. Now to find the geocache. Sadly, even though I turn over plenty of rocks and expanded my search radius, I was unable to find it. This geocache was an ammo can and those tend to get stolen, so I presume that's what happened to this one. Or it could've been a plastic one and melted, as there's evidence of a fire at the summit. I did however, find the summit log, which I signed with my real name and geocache name. Disappointing that I failed to find the cache as that was the big reason for hiking this peak. Hiked back down the way I came in and found some other caches nearby. Of course I'll have to hike this hill again when the geocache gets replaced, but it's not a hard hill to hike, so it will be fine. Only issue is the peak is 40 miles from where I live. |
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