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Five Little Horns-Little Horn Mountains SE, AZ
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| Hiking | 8.43 Miles |
1,705 AEG |
| | Hiking | 8.43 Miles | 7 Hrs 41 Mns | | 2.04 mph |
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| 1,705 ft AEG | 3 Hrs 33 Mns Break | | |
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| no partners | | I planned this - ‘Five Little Horns’ - hike, over a year ago, and never got around to it.
(OH …. so many hikes and so little time).
Well, I did the hike now, and I’m glad I did. It was alot of fun.
The remote, Little Horn Mountain Range, stretches for about 15 miles in a northwest-southeast direction and straddles La Paz and Yuma counties. The Kofas are just west while the Eagletails are just east.
I made a loop out of it, since I had to use a few mountain ridges to locate things. The hike consisted of going up basalt boulders, then leisurely moving across a wide ridge to the summit. After leaving the summit, I traversed a perpendicular ridge to get to a third ridge, where I located the azimuth mark for Little Horn Benchmark.
Locating the azimuth mark, as usual, was a challenge. Alot of it depends on comprehending the surveyors’ information on the benchmark’s datasheet. This time, their wording made me ‘draw a map’ to figure out what they meant. After that, I easily located the azimuth mark, in one of the billions of basalt boulders up there.
This whole desert area, south of I-10 and north of I-8, is getting addictive. Very pleasant hiking.
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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
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