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| no partners | | | Beautiful, cloudy day. Perfect for hiking. Started at the TH on Speedway, Tucson AZ, Saguaro National Park East. This trail is a stock trail, so parts of it are worn, with trenches. Still easy to navigate with adequate signage. The trail has a slight incline, wide and sandy up to about mile 0.8. The incline increases and the trail becomes single file. Poles are not necessary for this part of the trail, but are nice to have. It meanders through the landscape with rolling hills. Just past the 1 mile point, we heard water flowing and observed a nice water fall on the west side of the trail. Short of the 2 mile point, the Carillo Trail crosses the path and stock are not allowed on Wild Horse past that point. There will be signage indicating that stock are not allowed. Shortly after this point, there is a magnificent saguaro with at least 20 arms. It is to the west of the trail and easily visible. We passed over a small water flow. At about the 0.3 mark, we hit the Little Wild Horse Tank. This is the most water I have ever seen in this pool with a stunning water fall. There was enough flow that we stayed on the west side of the pool and continued up the trail to other water flows. This part of the trail was narrow and steep, but I was still able to negotiate the climb with out polls. This part of the trail fades into the wilderness as you proceed up the canyon. We just went up a short distance where there were nice boulder shelves to sit on and enjoy the sound of the flowing water with a few small water falls. The entire trail is rather sandy with little mud along the route. I have been on this trail when it was bone dry - still an enjoyable hike. |
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fairy dusters, brittle bush, Parry's penstemon, poppies |
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Wild Horse Canyon |
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