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| Hiking | 5.03 Miles |
1,570 AEG |
| | Hiking | 5.03 Miles | 3 Hrs 20 Mns | | 1.78 mph |
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| partners | | I met Preston in the early AM and decided to hike in this area but didn't have a plan exactly which trail to take. It's been several years since I hiked these trails. We decided to look for the 'new' trail. When we saw the first sign along the trail it was a bit confusing. I saw Garnet and assumed that was the new trail. We later found out it was simply a rename. Personally, I liked Pontatoc ridge better since it was more descriptive of where it went. We were both a bit confused as to whether the Garnet trail was new or not, but after hiking it we soon realized it was exactly the same as the old Pontatoc ridge trail.
Pontatoc canyon trail was apparently renamed to simply Pontatoc trail. Maybe this was renamed because there were a new project to extend this trail to connect with the Finger rock trail and a good portion of the trail was not in Pontatoc canyon. Either way, it seems that the rename was not necessary. Near the upper section of the Garnet trail, we could see a branch of the Pontatoc trail (formerly Pontatoc Canyon trail) down below which seemed to head over toward the Finger rock trail. The map at the trailhead has not yet been updated so many this trail is still under construction?
We hiked to the end of the trail, which still had the old sign 'End of Pontatoc Ridge trail'. This probably will cause some confusion because it's supposed to now be the Garnet trail.
As for the new extension trail, I would like to go back sometime (not in summer) to hike it.
It started getting brutally hot after about 9 am. On the way down, we saw a California King snake, non-venomous, that didn't seem to care that we were there.
We also saw a maintenance crew out there spraying probably to minimize an invasive species. They need to be given credit for being out there in the intense summit heat. But, they were getting paid to be there, we were not ;-).
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Distance (round trip): 5.03 miles
AEG: 1570 feet
Strava moving time: 2 hrs 23 mins
Strava elapsed time: 3 hrs 20 mins |
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Michael Williams
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Rocky Point Vacation Rentals
Ocean Front Condo in Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico
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