PLANS HAVE CHANGED. This trip is being postponed until temps drop, so it's going to happen in the fall.
Going to do a loop on Mother's Day weekend (since I'm not a Mother ). Looking to go from Tortialla Flats TH (yes, I will get us there in the 4Runner) south on Peter's Trail then loop around through La Barge Canyon and back on Hoolie Bacon Trail. I have never been on any of these trails, so I don't know what's up. But I have been through this area on the JF Trial, so I know the landscape. I will be doing this as an overnight and calculate mileage at about 15 miles total. Shouldn't be to strenuous....so come along!
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definitely interested, we'll see whats going on with my finals and getting ready to leave for the summer at that point in time, so its too early to commit, realistically I should be in as all my classes are easy this semester.
Update on this hike. I have had more time to study the map and the Hiker's Guide. most of this loop is listed in the Hiker's Guide to the Superstions (Trip #41). I do not plan to partake in the off-trail route from Horse Camp Basin over to Peter's Trail like the book shows (I will be doing this in a different trip), I am going to continue down the Hoolie Bacon trail all the way to the Red Tanks Trail and around through La Barge Canyon and back on Peter's Trial. I calculate total mileage at about 16.1. There is going to be come over grown cat's claw trail...and some searching for trails. But it should be a very nice overnighter in the interior of the Sups. The ideal camping spots would be some place in La Barge Canyon (La Barge Spring, Musc Canyon Spring or Charlebois Spring).
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I'll have to think about this one....might be to much catclaw for me. The winding road makes me puke in the back of the 4Runner too....Dirt4dinner loves it when I puke all over his pack!
I go wherever Dirt4Dinner goes...sometimes not willingly. ESPECIALLY when there is catclaw low to the trail. I have to deal with that at home (the real thing actually...stupid cat)...I don't need it on the trail!
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). Looking to go from Tortialla Flats TH (yes, I will get us there in the 4Runner) south on Peter's Trail then loop around through La Barge Canyon and back on Hoolie Bacon Trail. I have never been on any of these trails, so I don't know what's up. But I have been through this area on the JF Trial, so I know the landscape. I will be doing this as an overnight and calculate mileage at about 15 miles total. Shouldn't be to strenuous....so come along!
