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| Hiking | 7.50 Miles |
3,450 AEG |
| | Hiking | 7.50 Miles | 5 Hrs 30 Mns | | 1.43 mph |
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| no partners | | I have wanted to hike Hershberger for sometime, and I guess this was because I forgot how bad the approach is. I didn't come from the A trail, that sounds like a nightmare. Instead, I came from Goat Springs, the ridge line above the mesa, and up to the peak the way I came down last year when I did the peak with the group after the Marble Canyon meet-up hike. The ridge is fine, just go slow to avoid the thorns. Crossing the hills is OK, but once gaining the last slope up to the summit it is not fun. It could be, especially if a trail was there, but the grass is thick, there are dead flowers with spiked seeds, and there are small agave and other pointy cactus in the spots between the rock and grass, nice and out of sight at times, too. Anyway, it isn't a fun hike in that section.
So, even though my newer shoes are filled with seeds and pointy junk, and my legs cut up from the pointy plants, I did sort of enjoy this. It was a beautiful afternoon, the day was lovely, and there was the highlight of flushing up a large covey of quail, too.
Miles seems about right and the AEG is actually about the same as the description. Parked at the end of 1st @ 4518, the summit on the topo is 7850', and there is a 50' valley you cross 2x, plus another hills that is at least the remainder, so I probably am over the official, but I'll go low for this one. |
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