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Hiking | 12.98 Miles |
4,167 AEG |
| Hiking | 12.98 Miles | 7 Hrs 13 Mns | | 2.11 mph |
4,167 ft AEG | 1 Hour 4 Mns Break | 10 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | Planned to do Josephine and Hopkins peaks, but didn’t quite turn out that way!
Started from Madera Canyon, plan was to do Josephine first. At Riley Saddle we turned off and got a little ways in before calling it. The brush was insanely thick, no way to make it currently that I could see and I was trying to follow the HAZ track.
So we abandoned that summit attempt and headed for Hopkins, taking Super to Agua Caliente, and at the point where we were closest to the Hopkins road, we took a little, steep, unnamed path straight up to it, then hiked the road to the summit, having lunch on top.
We headed down the summit road a short distance then bushwhacked down the steep mountainside to rejoin the Agua Caliente. There was nothing really to follow there, though we did stumble onto game trails a couple of times for a little ways which helped. We then headed down Agua Caliente to Vault Mine Trail to Old Baldy, back the short distance down to the trailhead.
Weather was perfect, and we saw a number of deer and some birds. Great but tiring day!
going up Baldy and Super |
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Wildflowers Observation Isolated
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." — Henry David Thoreau |
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