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| Hiking | 16.84 Miles |
2,676 AEG |
| | Hiking | 16.84 Miles | 9 Hrs 2 Mns | | 2.07 mph |
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| partners | | Coco finally closed the roads up high, which resulted in the peaceful conditions I prefer. Snow last week followed by a super melt and temps that made normal February hiking destinations unpalatable. I figured there'd be some lingering snow in the drainages and that turned out to be true. In fact, there was more than expected, though we were never more than 50 yards from dry ground.
There was ample runoff in Bear Canyon (and every single side drainage, or slight depression where water could flow). I ballparked 5+ cfs and when you factor in all the other drainages that feed into it downstream, along with the Clear Creek fork, I was curious to see how Cragin was doing. Indeed, it is up an impressive 15 feet in the past week, and at 70% full is 50 feet higher than it was at this time last year. There's not much snow left to melt, so I wouldn't think it could get any higher than 75% without more storms this spring.
The only other hiker encountered on the day made a cabin loop attempt but was thwarted at the FR95 washout crossing as it was running too high and fast for him to find a safe way across.
On the Haught/AZT, there were about a half dozen mandatory wet crossings, so despite trudging through several inches of snow and wading across shin-deep creeks, the rim temps near 70 made the day quite enjoyable. Encountered tracks of a single canid much of the day. I don't think I could identify coyote v wolf track if I spent a year studying them and I didn't bother looking up any recent collar pings in the area, so I default to yote.
Fun to experience this part of the world in conditions like this — typical of mid-April — and that's a little bit depressing.
Could have probably tagged 10 other east west mid upr lwr loop cyn hikes and about 5 acridomorpha camps all in the same area. Hit about 60 unique lampropeltis waypoints that crashed my RS. Interestingly, RS tallied 16.98, reported 16.84. Gaia tallied 14.5 and reported 15.23. I don't pay much attention to these things, but the discrepancy is notable and I mention it only for the people who find their life's meaning in the specifics, and the poor programmer who has to respond to their complaints. |
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Wildflowers Observation Isolated
two uniques! |
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Box Canyon |
Medium flow |
Medium flow |
| | | As nice as it gets. |
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East Bear Canyon |
Medium flow |
Medium flow |
| | | I would say "raging" but must reserve the highest report for more flow. Though I'm unsure where that water would come from. |
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Fred Haught Spring |
Gallon + per minute |
Gallon + per minute |
| | | Is there a spring here? There was water flowing in every drainage from every direction. |
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General Springs |
Gallon + per minute |
Gallon + per minute |
| | | Spring or no spring. Plenty of water flowing through the drainage | | _____________________
| I'm not sure what my spirit animal is, but I'm confident it has rabies. |
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and a solo hiker from Colorado as we neared the end.
. No sign of a too elderly backpacker or anybody else at all. Two other vehicles in the lot to start were gone when we finished. Must be too warm to hike. (It did hit 78 in the sun, though it generally hovered in the upper 50s in the shade).
