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Nov 12 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
Gila River Canyons - AZT #16Globe, AZ
Gila River Canyons - AZT #16
Globe, AZ
Hiking avatar Nov 12 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking10.00 Miles 1,700 AEG
Hiking10.00 Miles   5 Hrs   30 Mns   1.82 mph
1,700 ft AEG
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This is my first trip on this section of trail. I started about a mile north of the Tonto NF boundary and hiked south to the Battle Axe Road. I met no one else on the trail, an advantage of weekday hiking. :) The road to where I was dropped off requires a Rubicon or equivalent, three maps, a GPS, a sextant, and an ouiji board to navigate, and a good ninety minutes from pavement.

I hiked the Kaibab and Bright Angel trails earlier this year and I'm declaring this trail to be prettier. I'm a low desert rat so I'm a bit biased but this trail shouldn't be missed, sort of a Sonoran Desert equivalent of the Grinnel Glacier Trail in Glacier NP, complete with big horn sheep! I saw no water on the section of trail I hiked but I wasn't looking too hard.
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Oct 24 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
Miller Canyon Trail #106Tucson, AZ
Miller Canyon Trail #106
Tucson, AZ
Hiking avatar Oct 24 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking4.00 Miles 1,500 AEG
Hiking4.00 Miles   4 Hrs      1.00 mph
1,500 ft AEG
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Hiked just shy of two miles up the trail to do a bit of rockhounding on one of the old mine dumps. The creek is running and the trail is in good shape with two minor tree falls. The maples are changing colors and dropping leaves. The rocks were pretty.
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Autumn Foliage Observation Light
Maples are turning and dropping leaves
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Oct 19 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
Greaterville Trail #79Tucson, AZ
Greaterville Trail #79
Tucson, AZ
Hiking avatar Oct 19 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking2.09 Miles 452 AEG
Hiking2.09 Miles   1 Hour   30 Mns   1.39 mph
452 ft AEG
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I set out for Florida Peak via the Greaterville Trail #79 and East Sawmill Canyon Trail #146. The weather started out sunny and 58F. Thunderstorms dropped rain in the mid afternoon. Travel time is approximate round trip time for the Greaterville Trail portion of the hike only.

The Road: The Greaterville Road (FS 229 and FS 165) has been well maintained. Most passenger cars larger than compacts should have no trouble getting at least as far as the radio towers in Melendrez Pass. A bit of clearance is helpful for the last bit of road to the trailhead parking spot. 4WD was not needed at all today.

The Trail: The trail sets out steeply up from the parking area. The first three hundred yards or so are moderately to heavily eroded. It looks like folks tried to run motorcycles or ATVs up the first part of the trail. After this the trail levels somewhat and climbs steadily. With the abundant recent rain, the trail is overgrown with thick vegetation. The views to the east are very good with most of the ranges of southeastern Arizona in view.

At 0.8 miles the trail crosses a saddle from Fish Canyon into Sawmill Canyon. There was recent border trash in the saddle. The views from the saddle are well worth the hike with the view to the west including Florida Peak, Baboquivari, and various desert ranges. The trail descends into Sawmill Canyon and eventually dead-ends at the Sawmill Canyon Trail.

Triplog continues under the East Sawmill Canyon Trail #146 entry.
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Oct 19 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
East Sawmill Canyon Trail #146Tucson, AZ
East Sawmill Canyon Trail #146
Tucson, AZ
Hiking avatar Oct 19 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking4.40 Miles 2,290 AEG
Hiking4.40 Miles   5 Hrs      0.88 mph
2,290 ft AEG
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I set out for Florida Peak via the Greaterville Trail #79 and East Sawmill Canyon Trail #146. The weather started out sunny and 58F. Thunderstorms dropped rain in the mid afternoon. Travel time listed is the round trip time for the Sawmill Canyon Trail portion of the hike only.

I joined the Sawmill Canyon Trail at the Greaterville Trail junction and proceeded west toward Florida Saddle. The trail is overgrown with vegetation in the lower elevations. The trail is relatively easy to find up to Sawmill Spring. Above Sawmill Spring the trail is difficult to find in places and completely obliterated in others. I counted exactly one hundred downed trees blocking the Sawmill Canyon Trail between the Greaterville Trail junction and the turnoff to Florida Peak. More than eighty of these tree falls are above Sawmill Spring where the effects of the Florida Fire were more intense. In a couple spots massive tree falls have all but erased the trail at key switchback corners leading to quite a bit of bushwhacking to regain the trail. I managed to lose the trail both ascending and descending. An earlier hiker had placed cairns in helpful locations. I added a few as well.

The off-trail ascent to Florida Peak is short and not too difficult. Florida Peak is a double peak with the taller to the south and a rocky, shorter peak to the north. The southern peak offers good views of the Santa Rita crest and views to the north and south. The view eastward is blocked by vegetation. I hiked to the top of the southern peak and then set out for the northern peak. This peak was ringed with gambel oak re-sprouts and I didn't feel like fighting my way through the rocks and thickets so I skipped the northern peak and returned to the trail for the descent.

The sycamores and Arizona walnuts are in full color. There was water in the creek for about a mile below Sawmill Spring.
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Autumn Foliage Observation Isolated
Sycamore and Arizona walnuts in full color.
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Oct 13 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
Agua Caliente Trail #140Tucson, AZ
Agua Caliente Trail #140
Tucson, AZ
Hiking avatar Oct 13 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking5.15 Miles 2,475 AEG
Hiking5.15 Miles   5 Hrs   20 Mns   0.97 mph
2,475 ft AEG
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I hiked from the Agua Caliente Trailhead up to Agua Caliente Saddle then off-trail the short distance to the top of the knob due south of the saddle.

First the road: The dirt road from the Mount Hopkins Road to the trailhead, the quintessential bladder buster, has deteriorated considerably over the past year with lots of head to watermelon sized cobbles to gently rock you on your journey. A high clearance vehicle is essential. 4WD is useful but probably not necessary if you take your time and plan your lines of travel. Prepare to be bumped and bruised all the way in.

Now the trail: The trail is gorgeous, well worth the road hassles and the trail conditions. With Hurricanes Odile and Simon and a solid monsoon season, water was running in the creek most of the way from the saddle to the trailhead providing a pleasant soundtrack for the hike. The trail showed only light use at the bottom to almost no detectable use in the mid-section around the Treasure Vault Mine to light use again near the saddle. The lower and mid sections were overgrown with vegetation. I built cairns in a couple spots where the trail all but vanished in the monsoon growth. There are a number of downed trees blocking the trail requiring a scramble over/under/around. The section near the mine is in particularly poor condition with evidence that folks had lost the trail entirely and improvised with their own trails. The view from the saddle was great as last week's storm had knocked a lot of dust out of the air.

Anyway, I did my part to clear the trail of sock stickers. :D
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Jun 15 2014
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61 male
 Joined Jun 04 2014
 Tucson
Bearpaw Rock & Pete Mountain LoopTucson, AZ
Bearpaw Rock & Pete Mountain Loop
Tucson, AZ
Hiking avatar Jun 15 2014
waterdog • Triplogs 6
Hiking7.50 Miles 3,052 AEG
Hiking7.50 Miles   5 Hrs   30 Mns   1.36 mph
3,052 ft AEG
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Beautiful hike. The trail to Pete's Mountain is readily seen though a few cairns lead to more overgrown routes. Critters have been into the container holding the summit log and the logbook is water logged. Goshawks nesting on the upper Carrie Nation trail were displeased with my passage and one made several dives at me.
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