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Seven Springs Rd Hike/Climb, AZ
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| Hike & Climb | 4.85 Miles |
1,579 AEG |
| | Hike & Climb | 4.85 Miles | 5 Hrs 10 Mns | | 1.16 mph |
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| no partners | | | Wanted to be outside in awesome weather - and so boyfriend drove us in my truck on Seven Springs Road - kind of winging it with plans to find slopes of poppies - maybe get up to Humboldt - maybe look around a saddle that he spied when he was glassing for javalina last month that had cool rocks. We got all the way to the top of a canyon wall and used a small stretch of Maricopa Trail but we mostly just walked in a vague direction happily. Scrambled up and around rocks -tried not to do anything too dangerous. Lots of animal tracks in soft boggy soil after snow last week. Good workout - didn’t see another human - was a perfect day. Sooooooo many flowers of all kinds. |
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Wildflowers Observation Substantial
Poppies, lupine, little purple and white ones, |
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first hike after 16 years of hiking in AZ! Not sure why it seems so far away from NoSco , but it was only 33 minute drive. I wore pants too thick out of eager anticipation of actual Fall ; however we are now in pseudo-Fall and I was sweatin as the sun got on us in the last mile. The sunrise from up there is 360 awesome. Not many places where you can access a ridgeline so quickly and without much challenge. I liked the mid-loop scramble on the gorgeous varnish/patina rocks - sturdy long stacks of pancake rocks are best kind of scramble. The ocotillo were flush with saturated deep green leaves after the recent rain. Parking lot was a WAR zone 
when we finished around 9:00am. Definitely will be back !
I have a permit for Fossil Springs today but something just didn’t feel right. I feel badly that I wasted it but I had to trust my gut. 
